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Rudy Gobert, the first NBA player to test positive for coronavirus, and all Utah Jazz players and staff have been cleared of coronavirus by the Utah Department of Health, the club announced.
It was Frenchman Gobert testing positive for COVID-19 just before a game on March 11 at Oklahoma City that prompted the NBA to shut down the season, with his teammate Donovan Mitchell also testing positive.
Players and staff members completed a 14-day isolation and quarantine period and no longer pose a risk of infection to others, according to the state health department.
Clearance typically involves two negative tests for coronavirus that are taken at least 24 hours apart.
Jazz players had been in quarantine or isolation since March 11, staying in touch through video chat links.
Jazz players and staff will continue to practice distancing and limit time outside of their homes to essential activities, following guidelines from the NBA and US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The Jazz news comes a day after Detroit’s Christian Wood became the first publicly known NBA player to be cleared after testing positive for coronavirus on March 15.
Wood, the third NBA player to test positive after Gobert and Mitchell, had been matched against Gobert in a game against the Jazz just before the Frenchman’s positive test.
Clippers owner donates $25 million
According to reports from Los Angeles, after its 10 million dollar donation this week to the University of Washington Medicine’s emergency response fund, a philanthropic group founded by Los Angeles Clippers owner Steve Ballmer and his wife, Connie, says it has pledged more than million dollars thus far toward organisations working to blunt the novel coronavirus outbreak.
The Ballmer Group said its latest donation toward the healthcare system in Seattle, where the Ballmers live, will be used to accelerate testing for a virus vaccine.
“Testing is the most immediate priority right now as we try to reduce community spread of COVID-19,” said Dr. Paul Ramsey, UW Medicine’s chief executive. “Private philanthropy, like Connie and Steve Ballmer’s extraordinary gift, is critical to expanding testing at the speed and scale required to save lives. We are incredibly grateful for their leadership during this crisis.”
The group has also continued to give grants for short-term, immediate needs in southeastern Michigan, where Ballmer grew up, and Los Angeles, the home of his NBA team.
Last week, the group announced 1 million dollars in gifts toward the Los Angeles County’s Office of Education, the Los Angeles Unified School District and to help low-wage workers and the homeless. Since then, more funds in Los Angeles have been granted toward providing childcare for first responders, healthcare workers and workers deemed “essential”; and helping workers at small businesses and nonprofits access publicly available funds.
Earlier this week, Ballmer agreed to spend 400 million dollars to purchase the Forum, as a means of moving along the Clippers’ proposed arena project in Inglewood.
New York
Rudy Gobert, the first NBA player to test positive for coronavirus, and all Utah Jazz players and staff have been cleared of coronavirus by the Utah Department of Health, the club announced.
It was Frenchman Gobert testing positive for COVID-19 just before a game on March 11 at Oklahoma City that prompted the NBA to shut down the season, with his teammate Donovan Mitchell also testing positive.
Players and staff members completed a 14-day isolation and quarantine period and no longer pose a risk of infection to others, according to the state health department.
Clearance typically involves two negative tests for coronavirus that are taken at least 24 hours apart.
Jazz players had been in quarantine or isolation since March 11, staying in touch through video chat links.
Jazz players and staff will continue to practice distancing and limit time outside of their homes to essential activities, following guidelines from the NBA and US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The Jazz news comes a day after Detroit’s Christian Wood became the first publicly known NBA player to be cleared after testing positive for coronavirus on March 15.
Wood, the third NBA player to test positive after Gobert and Mitchell, had been matched against Gobert in a game against the Jazz just before the Frenchman’s positive test.
Clippers owner donates $25 million
According to reports from Los Angeles, after its 10 million dollar donation this week to the University of Washington Medicine’s emergency response fund, a philanthropic group founded by Los Angeles Clippers owner Steve Ballmer and his wife, Connie, says it has pledged more than million dollars thus far toward organisations working to blunt the novel coronavirus outbreak.
The Ballmer Group said its latest donation toward the healthcare system in Seattle, where the Ballmers live, will be used to accelerate testing for a virus vaccine.
“Testing is the most immediate priority right now as we try to reduce community spread of COVID-19,” said Dr. Paul Ramsey, UW Medicine’s chief executive. “Private philanthropy, like Connie and Steve Ballmer’s extraordinary gift, is critical to expanding testing at the speed and scale required to save lives. We are incredibly grateful for their leadership during this crisis.”
The group has also continued to give grants for short-term, immediate needs in southeastern Michigan, where Ballmer grew up, and Los Angeles, the home of his NBA team.
Last week, the group announced 1 million dollars in gifts toward the Los Angeles County’s Office of Education, the Los Angeles Unified School District and to help low-wage workers and the homeless. Since then, more funds in Los Angeles have been granted toward providing childcare for first responders, healthcare workers and workers deemed “essential”; and helping workers at small businesses and nonprofits access publicly available funds.
Earlier this week, Ballmer agreed to spend 400 million dollars to purchase the Forum, as a means of moving along the Clippers’ proposed arena project in Inglewood.
