Rutgers football team under quarantine after 15 players test positive for COVID-19

The Rutgers University football team is under quarantine after 15 players tested positive for COVID-19.

New Jersey State Health Commissioner Judith Persichilli mentioned the team as she expressed concerns about gatherings in the state during Gov. Phil Murphy’s news briefing Wednesday.

“We have had several circumstances where indoor and outdoor gatherings in our state have led to community clusters of COVID-19 … There’s been an outbreak among Rutgers football players with 15 of them currently testing positive,” she said, listing other outbreaks across the state.

“These examples that we shared today account for 125 new cases of COVID-19 in our state,” she added. “Every single one of those cases has the potential to infect other people. Their grandparents, parents, siblings, friends, love ones, and if any one of them have underlying conditions … the result could be fatal.”

Rutgers is the second Big Ten Conference team that is under quarantine. Last week Michigan State went under quarantine until Aug. 4.