MARION — A new covid case with seven close contacts was identified at Sippican School on Nov. 3, according to a press release from the Old Rochester Regional School District. 

The person who tested positive is self-isolating in accordance with Massachusetts Department of Public Health and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention protocol. The individual has not been in school since Oct. 28 and was tested for the virus on Oct. 30.

The seven close contacts are quarantining and have been referred for covid testing, according to the release. 

All schools will continue with their normal schedules on Wednesday, Nov. 4, including Sippican School in Marion, at the recommendation of the Marion Board of Health.

“If there was evidence of in-school transmission, we would’ve almost certainly asked them not to return to school,” Board of Health Chair Edward Hoffer said at a Nov. 3 Board of Health meeting. 

Public Health Nurse Lori Desmarais said that contact tracing has led to no evidence of any of the eight district cases having been transmitted within the school.

Marion has had 31 total recorded covid cases, eight of which are currently active. 

“Unfortunately quite a change from the summer,” Hoffer said. 

Until now, Marion had resisted the rise in cases that has occurred across the state.

“Unfortunately, we have seen the spike in cases this week,” Desmarais said. 

All schools will continue to be cleaned every day after school and as needed,

The positive case is the eighth involving an individual in the school district since schools reopened Sept. 16.

This is the third case recorded at Sippican school since the district’s reopening.