After the team was announced, Yankee third base coach Phil Nevin tested positive for COVID-19 in terms of “success”.
Nevin, 50, is in quarantine in Tampa, where the Yankees are expected to open a series against the Rays on Tuesday night.
Contract tracing is underway, the team said in a statement. Manager Aaron Boone said he expected Tuesday’s game to be played.
In early April, Yankee TK I personnel reached the 85 percent limit of vaccinated players, coaches and others deemed capable of relaxing the COVID-19 protocol.
The team reportedly received the one-dose Johnson & Johnson vaccine.
Although the vaccines being introduced in the US are effective in preventing severe cases of infection and disease caused by COVID-19, there is a “small percentage” of people who are fully vaccinated who are so-called successes for the virus. Have tested positive. Cases, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
It is not clear whether Nevin is experiencing symptoms.
Bench coach Carlos Mendoza will serve as the third-base coach on Tuesday.
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