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MA Teen Gets Coronavirus After Playing In CT Hockey Tournament
A Massachusetts teen boy played in the hockey tournament with teammates from New York. Twelve New Yorks boys also contracted coronavirus.
A Massachusetts teen boy has tested positive for coronavirus after crossing state lines to play in a hockey tournament in Connecticut.
The Boston Globe reported the teen, who was born in 2006, competed with a New York team in an elite tournament from July 31 to Aug. 2. At least 12 other players from New York tested positive, said Chet Murch, the general manager of The Rinks at Exeter in New Hampshire.
Murch told the Globe he learned about the case after speaking with a New York contact tracing organization. The Massachusetts boy, not knowing he had COVID-19, participated in a skills clinic at the Exeter facility after playing in the tournament.
Boys affiliated with at least two Massachusetts youth hockey programs, the Boston Hockey Club and Boston Junior Blues, also competed in the "War of the Well" hockey tournament in Hamden and Northford, Connecticut. Public health officials didn't disclose if any other players tested positive for the virus during the tournament.
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