Two weeks after a Wiscasset Middle High School staff member tested positive for COVID-19, a WMHS student has received a “probable positive” test result, according to announcements at the school department’s website, wiscassetschools.org

Superintendent of Schools Terry Wood’s March 25 letter stated contract tracing was underway, anyone considered a close contact of the student’s would be notified, and keeping all students and staff safe and healthy is the department’s top priority. “Please be assured that during this time we will continue to take all (precautions) to ensure that our schools are safe for all staff and students,” Wood added.

March 12, Wood announced a WMHS staff member’s positive test result. Responding to email questions from Wiscasset Newspaper, Wood wrote March 19, everyone was doing fine, and any staff impacted had since returned to work or would return March 22. She deferred other questions to Maine Center for Disease Control.

Maine CDC spokesman Robert Long replied March 24, it had no outbreak investigation open involving WMHS. Patient privacy laws apply to individual cases, he added.

Other incidents reported at wiscassetschools.org this school year have included a positive test over February break for a student who did not attend WMHS in person; and a positive test that, according to a March 9 letter from Wood, involved a school department staff member.