FORT MYERS, Fla. — Update: USA Today is now reporting that Red Sox vice president of media relations Kevin Gregg says the team did not quarantine Chih-Jung Liu.
“He was never quarantined,” Gregg told the newspaper. “He’s not sick, has never been sick. No one is at risk.”
Gregg said the team did ask him not to report to spring training until Saturday out of “an overabundance of caution.”
Gregg told 10Investigates' Courtney Robinson that Chih-Jung Liu will be at camp on Friday with the team and said he has never been to mainland China or had contact with anyone confirmed to have coronavirus. He was checked out by the Red Sox's medical team and never showed any symptoms.
"He was not isolated and is not sick," Gregg said.
Original story:
It’s hard to imagine the excitement Chih-Jung Liu felt when he flew to Fort Myers, Fla. to take a swing at the big leagues.
But he’s spent the last week staring at the walls in his hotel room.
The Boston Globe reports the 20-year-old Red Sox prospect from Taiwan is being quarantined because of concerns about the coronavirus. According to the newspaper, the team called it “an overabundance of caution.”
More than 80,000 cases of coronavirus have been confirmed around the world, but the vast majority are in China. USA Today reports 32 people in Taiwan have tested positive. There are 57 cases in the United States, but the Centers for Disease Control warned the country on Tuesday a wider outbreak is inevitable.
For now, Chih-Jung Lie said he’s receiving three meals a day and spending most of his time working out in his room.
According to the Boston Globe, the Red Sox quarantined another Taiwanese player, Tzu-Wei Lin, earlier this month.
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