WCPS: COVID exposure possible on WSE and Edgewood campuses

COVID-19 has found its way onto two more Wayne County Public Schools campuses.

In a news release issued this afternoon, the district said individuals who have tested positive for the virus were at Wayne School of Engineering and Edgewood Community Developmental School.

The news brings the district’s total up to five since campuses were opened last week to staff and some students who have already returned under the state’s Plan B hybrid reopening model.

Cases of individuals with the virus being in WCPS facilities have also been documented at Meadow Lane Elementary, Carver Elementary and Wayne Early Middle College High School.

Wayne School of Engineering and WEMCHS have both already welcomed students back under the state’s Plan B hybrid reopening model.

WCPS did not specify what actions would be taken on those campuses, but said, in the release, that “all recommended guidelines from the NC Department of Health and Human Services have been followed at both schools.”