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Two Longhorns football players tested positive for COVID-19 during the pre-training screening process the school put into place, University of Texas Athletics announced.
The university is returning 58 players to campus to begin voluntary workouts.
One of the two students who tested positive identified symptoms of the virus before coming back to campus.
A third player tested positive for COVID-19 antibodies.
Both the players who tested positive are now self-isolating, the department said last night.
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Austin City Council Member Vanessa Fuentes, who represents District 2 in Southeast Austin, and Travis County Judge Andy Brown tour the Austin Region Infusion Center earlier this month.
The COVID-19 therapeutic infusion center in South Austin is expanding.
The pop-up center opened outside of the Montopolis CommUnity Care location on Jan. 6 with nine infusion chairs and monoclonal antibody treatments donated by area hospitals. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott announced Monday that the center will now offer 33 infusion chairs, thanks to additional support provided by the Texas Division of Emergency Management.
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