WHEELING — Ohio County Schools reported no additional positive COVID-19 tests within the school system Tuesday after four staff members tested positive for the virus over the past few days.

Meanwhile, a single positive COVID-19 case has been identified at Corpus Christi School in Warwood. The student tested positive on Tuesday. The health department and school officials have investigated and identified students that were direct contacts. Those individuals were contacted and placed in quarantine. School staff will conduct appropriate disinfection and cleaning of all areas within the school. All students and staff should monitor their health.

Ohio County Schools continues its plan for four-day per week in-school instruction, with students having Wednesdays off as schools are cleaned and disinfected. On days they are not at their school building, students engage in on-line lessons.

The exception is at West Liberty Elementary School, where staffing issues resulting from COVID-19 exposures have led to the school being closed temporarily. Students instead are participating in remote learning from home, at least through the end of this week, according to school officials.

On Monday, the school district reported four school district employees had been infected by COVID-19. Among them was a staff member at West Liberty Elementary that apparently had close contact with at least six other school employees. All are being quarantined.

A custodian at Wheeling Park High School, as well as a bus driver and a transportation aide in the school district, also tested positive. This resulted in another 15 staff members being quarantined.

In-school education is continuing at Wheeling Park.

Wheeling-Ohio County Health Department Administrator Howard Gamble said he could not confirm reports that one infected school district employee came to work not wearing a mask.

“We had heard he may have been in close contact (with students and staff), and it is close contact that concerns us,” Gamble said.

“The anecdote that he may have been running around without a mask or coughing while he knew is all anecdotal. There is nothing I can prove. I am only concerned with close contact.”

Gamble said as far as he could tell the employee wasn’t aware he had COVID-19 until he called to tell the person.

“I don’t think he would have been running around sick with a positive if he knew it,” Gamble said of the employee. “We called him, and that was his first time knowing — from the test.

“I cannot confirm it is not true, but we determine close contact and exposure and not some rumor about someone walking around without a mask or talking to people.”

Ohio County Schools Communications Coordinator Gabe Wells said the school district couldn’t comment on the matter, saying it was a personnel issue.

The latest COVID-19 map from the West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources shows Ohio County as green, with Hancock, Brooke, and Marshall all yellow. Wetzel and Tyler also are green.

Wheeling-Ohio County Health Department announced seven new cases of COVID-19 in Ohio County on Monday. Currently, the health department reports a total of 426 cases, including nine probable cases and seven deaths. Case surveillance, contact tracing, and monitoring continues for many of the reported cases.