Eight UCLA football players tested positive for COVID-19 upon their return to campus in early July, a source familiar with the testing confirmed to ESPN.
The school did not announce the positive tests, per university policy, and they became public Wednesday only after Los Angeles Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer revealed them in a news conference while talking about spread of the coronavirus on college campuses in the county.
"We know that there is at least eight players that are confirmed positive," Ferrer said. "They are testing all of their close contacts and continuing to do that investigation.