George Floyd, who had died last week while being detained by police in Minnesota, has been tested positive for the novel coronavirus in a new autopsy report.

The post-mortem nasal swab was found to be “positive for 2019-nCoV RNA,” said the report, using another term for the type of coronavirus that causes COVID-19.

In the 20-page report, the medical examiner said that Floyd had tested positive for the deadly and infectious coronavirus on April 3, and a postmortem nasal swab collected the day after his day on May 26 proved positive for the virus, though he was most probably asymptomatic from the earlier infection.

The autopsy result most likely reflects asymptomatic but persistent PCR positivity from the previous infection -- implying the virus played no known role in Floyd’s death and he was unlikely to have been contagious.

Floyd, whom police suspected of trying to pass a counterfeit bill to pay for cigarettes, was pronounced dead at a hospital shortly after the May 25 encounter.

The report was released nine days after Floyd’s death.