More county schools are closing one or all of their buildings this week due to COVID-19.

Karns City area school district has closed its high schools, and Butler County Vocational-Technical School is closing, both temporarily for different amounts of time.

The BCAVTS reported two more COVID cases Monday, and said the school will close beginning Tuesday until Nov. 12. Remote instruction will be used until classes resume on that day.

The two new cases raise the total at BCAVTS to six.

The decision to close the school comes five days after the district announced a high school student tested positive for COVID-19.

In a message to parents, Karns City Superintendent Eric Ritzert announced the closure of his district's high school due to two new positive COVID-19 cases. One person tested positive last week too.

The closure will begin Tuesday and last until at least Friday. Students are scheduled to return Monday.

Read more in Tuesday's Butler Eagle.