NC State has five test positive for coronavirus

North Carolina State says five people tied to Wolfpack sports have tested positive for COVID-19.

Athletic spokesman Fred Demarest said Thursday those positive tests for coronavirus came after the school tested 315 athletes, coaches and staff starting May 29. That's a positive rate of roughly 1.6%.

NC State athletic director Boo Corrigan had announced in early June that the school had begun a schedule of allowing athletes to return in phases to campus.

That plan started with testing of members of the football, men's basketball and women's basketball programs who live locally. Athletes who were cleared were then allowed to participate in voluntary workouts in small groups.

On Wednesday, rival North Carolina said it was pausing football workouts for at least a week. That came after 37 positive results among 429 tests administered to UNC athletes, coaches and staff as they returned to campus in phases starting in June.