No USC athletes tested positive for the coronavirus in the most recent round of testing, the university announced Friday.
If there are no positive tests among tests conducted Friday on football and men’s water polo players, workouts in those sports could resume as early as Tuesday.
USC announced Aug. 26 it was pausing workouts in those sports after eight players on those teams tested positive for COVID-19 through the weekly surveillance testing program.
There was a ninth positive test among players on those teams in testing conducted Aug. 28, the university announced Monday.
USC has not specified what sport any of its athletes who have tested positive participate in.
Workouts in USC’s other Phase 1, 2 and 3 sports of men’s and women’s basketball, women’s volleyball and women’s soccer have not been affected and continue as planned.
USC recently increased its COVID-19 testing of all athletes to twice weekly.
Since testing began in mid-June, there have been 17 positive results, 1.3%, among the 1,352 tests conducted on returning athletes participating in on-campus workouts in football, men’s water polo, women’s soccer, women’s volleyball and men’s and women’s basketball.
All athletes who tested positive were isolated. Contact tracing indicates that the virus was contracted off campus as a result of increased community spread and not via any on-campus or training activities, university officials said.
Under Pac-12 Conference and public health guidelines, all USC workouts are outdoors and non-contact.
UCLA does not separately report positive tests among its athletes. Under university policy, any positive tests among the campus population are reported through the university’s daily reporting process.