PITTSBURGH -- Pirates president Travis Williams has tested positive for COVID-19, the team announced Thursday morning.

In a statement, Williams said he began to feel symptoms on Monday evening and that he is now “on the road to recovery.” At this time, Williams said, the Pirates have “no known additional positive tests within our organization.”

The Pirates have conducted contact tracing to identify anyone Williams may have come in contact with, but he said he was not around any of the Bucs' players, coaches or baseball operations staff because the team had been on the road from Thursday until Sunday, followed by an off-day Monday in Pittsburgh.

“Fortunately," Williams said, "I followed the critical health and safety protocols that we have put in place, including wearing a mask as required, maintaining safe social distance and, upon the onset of symptoms, immediately isolating myself and getting tested, which has prevented further impact to others."

After testing positive, Williams encouraged others to follow the necessary health and safety guidelines put forth by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, as well as state and local orders.

“I am on the road to recovery. In the meantime, I wanted to use my diagnosis as another reminder that we are all susceptible,” Williams said. “It is critical we all follow CDC guidelines and state mandates, and have a heightened sense of self-awareness in order to protect each other. We all must do our part to get through this pandemic together.”

Williams is the first member of Pittsburgh’s front office to test positive, but like most teams, the Pirates have been directly affected by the coronavirus pandemic since they reconvened for Summer Camp.

Five players -- Gregory Polanco, Keone Kela, Ke’Bryan Hayes, Blake Cederlind and Socrates Brito -- have missed time after testing positive, but the club has reported no positive tests since the season began. Five games have also been postponed: three against the Cardinals and two against the Reds.

Manager Derek Shelton confirmed that the Pirates’ traveling party wasn’t around Williams and commended the first-year team president for identifying and reporting his symptoms. Pittsburgh experienced a similar situation in Summer Camp with Polanco, who isolated himself as soon as he felt symptoms.

“That’s why the protocols are in place. Like we’ve talked about numerous times, no one can tell you how they contracted this or where they get it. You can follow all the protocols and people still end up positive,” Shelton said. “I’m very happy that, No. 1, he’s my boss, but, No. 2, that just like Polanco earlier in the year, he reported it himself. Travis reported himself. It shows that if you do the right things that we can stay ahead of this. I think it’s a credit to him [and] to the organization.”