Person Connected To Football Team Test Positive

As the coronavirus continues to spread, Huntsville High School is dealing with their own uptick in cases.

Dan shaffer.

We have team coverage tonight following everything you need to know about back to school plans across north alabama.

But we want to start with new information about the largest school district in the region.

Waay 31 obtained an email from huntsville high school saying all on-campus activities are suspended because of another coronavirus case!

The suspension is until 10:30 tomorrow morning.

The district says it will spend the time cleaning.

This email comes the same day we learned about a second person connected to huntsville high school's football team tested positive for coronavirus.

Waay 31's max cohan spent the day trying to track down what the school is doing about it.

"in an email acquired by waay 31, huntsville football head coach mark fleetwood informed parents that an individual associated with the team had tested positive for coronavirus and warned that anyone at practice last week may have been exposed."

Tuesday, huntsville city schools did not note any changes to its athletics plan.

Only stating that risk mitigation efforts are in place and temperature checks, sanitation and face coverings are already in place.

Football players spent part of the day practicing, as long as they hadn't come in contact with the individual who tested positive.

Even though schools put strict safety measures in place to protect students athletes.

Medical professionals such as daniel clark believe the spread is inevitable.

"it's coming and all the coaches know that -- more than likely -- if they don't already have an athlete, they will have an athlete that will get it."

The infectious disease expert for huntsville hospital already told waay 31 students should not be playing sports right now.

Monday, the hospital's ceo and mayor tommy battle admitted playing sports will probably lead to more cases.

A concern shared by clark "as soon as they leave campus, you have no idea what those athletes are doing -- at the house, going to the beach, going to nashville, going to huntsville, that bridge street, so it's really hard for you at a high school level, even a middle school level, to kind of encourage them to still practice social distancing and masking."

"today i reached out to several athletes and parents of the huntsville high school football team to see if the recent cases had raised concerns or impacted their decision to play.

None of the request for comment were returned in huntsville, max cohan, waay 31 news."

Thanks max.

We're also working to learn more about the new positive case at the high school.

We'll bring you any new information