Michigan will pause athletics for two weeks after COVID-19 variant found in the athletic department
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David Cobb from cbssports said that Michigan’s entire athletic department including its men’s basketball team in the midst of a banner season, is going on a two-week pause after officials discovered cases of a COVID-19 variant in the department, the school announced Saturday. The news was first reported by The Michigan Daily The cases are of the B.1.1.7. variant, a strain that is “more highly transmissible” of the coronavirus, according to the CDC.
Five cases of the B.1.1.7. COVID-19 variant have been confirmed in Michigan’s athletic department with 15 more presumed positive cases, according to The Daily. The state health department confirmed Saturday that the variant was present in Michigan and at the the University of Michigan, noting that the variant “spreads more easily between people.”
