Westport has closed its schools after it was learned a man diagnosed with coronavirus may have come in contact with people in town.

Schools in the Westport School District and some other public facilities are closed after a visitor tested positive for the coronavirus.

A statement on the school district’s website says that “a number of Westport parents and Westport Public School students, in schools throughout our district, were in contact with an individual presumed to be positive with coronavirus.”

Town officials said a visitor from overseas tested positive for the coronavirus. That man was at a private going-away party at a home last Thursday with around 40 people. Since that party, 14 people have come down with flu-like symptoms.

Mark Cooper, the director of Health at the Westport-Weston Health District, said he spoke to the patient Wednesday.

“(They) showed no symptomology whatsoever until they had left Westport. Symptoms did not occur until later on when they got home to their home country,” Cooper said.

Cooper added that the patient had mild flu-like symptoms so he went to his doctor, and contacted health officials when he got the diagnosis.

David Abbey, the interim superintendent of schools, said in a statement that the Westport School District will be closed until further notice after regular dismissal Wednesday. All after-school and evening activities, including athletics, are canceled as well.

“Immediately begin deep cleaning our schools and in conjunction with the Westport Weston Health District will be consulting with state and federal officials,” Abbey said in a statement.

Other public buildings including the library, town hall, and teen and senior centers are also closed.

There have been three positive tests for coronavirus in the state of Connecticut.

Officials said those patients are a Wilton man in his 40s or 50s, a woman in her 60s from Bethlehem, and an elderly New Canaan resident.

Several schools across the state are closing to clean or moving to remote learning. Get more information on what the schools are doing here.