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Illustration: Sarah Grillo/AxiosIn a document sent to players on Tuesday, the NBA provided a detailed look at what life will be like when play resumes inside the league's "bubble" at Walt Disney World in Florida next month.Why it matters: Players will be tested for COVID-19 "regularly." When someone tests positive, they will be placed in isolation, where they will remain for at least 14 days. Once they test negative twice in a span of more than 24 hours, they can leave isolation.The NBA will use video technology to help with contact tracing. Anyone who was within six feet of someone who tested positive for at least 15 minutes or had "direct contact with infectious secretions and excretions" (i.e. was coughed on) will be considered a "close contact" and also be tested.Key dates:LivingTeams will stay at three resorts based on seeding, and each team will have a travel party of 37 people, consisting of 15–17 players, 18–20 support staff, a PR official and a "content creator."More details:BasketballGames will be held in three arenas at the ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex (yellow circle above). A limited number of players can attend games they're not playing in, and there will be limited media, team executives, league employees and even sponsors allowed in.Game day schedule (7pm ET game), The Athletic's Shams Charania:My take: My brain hurts just imagining all of these moving parts. If this is what's required to resume the NBA season, how exactly do college football programs think they're going to play this fall?Go deeper: President Juan Orlando Hernández said late Tuesday that he and first lady Ana García were among over 9,600 Hondurans to have tested positive for the novel coronavirus, the . He added García was asymptomatic and he was feeling better. 330 people have died from the virus in Honduras. By the numbers: More than 8.1 million people have tested positive for COVID-19 worldwide, . New Zealand's Defense Force will now oversee the isolation of new arrivals and audit the coronavirus quarantine process, Prime Minister at a news conference on Wednesday. Details: Ardern said an "unacceptable failure" led to two women being allowed to leave mandatory quarantine for travelers early to visit a dying parent in Wellington without being tested. The sisters later tested positive for COVID-19 — ending New Zealand's 24-day run of no new infections.New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced Tuesday that the U.S. Open tennis tournament will be held from Aug. 31 to Sept. 13 without an audience as part of the state's phased coronavirus reopening protocol.The big picture: The U.S. Tennis Association said players and staff will be tested for COVID-19, and that there will robust health precautions to protect players like additional cleaning, extra locker room space and dedicated housing and transportation.

Illustration: Sarah Grillo/AxiosIn a document sent to players on Tuesday, the NBA provided a detailed look at what life will be like when play resumes inside the league's "bubble" at Walt Disney World in Florida next month.Why it matters: Players will be tested for COVID-19 "regularly." When someone tests positive, they will be placed in isolation, where they will remain for at least 14 days. Once they test negative twice in a span of more than 24 hours, they can leave isolation.The NBA will use video technology to help with contact tracing. Anyone who was within six feet of someone who...

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