Boston Red Sox Places Prospect Player Under Coronavirus Quarantine

People with face masks sit outside of the hospital of Ahepa in Thessaloniki on Feb. 26, 2020, the same day the country reported its first case of the new coronavirus. Sakis Mitrolidis/AFP via Getty Images

A Boston Red Sox prospect from Taiwan was placed under quarantine in his Florida hotel room over fears that he might have contracted the COVID-19 coronavirus, according to the team.

Chih-Jung Liu, 20, arrived at Red Sox spring training in Fort Myers last week, and he was quarantined in the room out of “an overabundance of caution,” a team spokesman told the Boston Globe.