During a July 2 press briefing, Gov. Steve Bullock said that while Montana continues to have the lowest number of cases and deaths related to COVID-19, it is still a serious concern. The state now has 1,083 cases, according to the state dashboard. There have been 222 new cases this week alone, Bullock said, and 389 currently active cases statewide.
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The story was updated at 6:19 p.m. July 1 with information about the active and recovered cases. Cascade County City-County Health Department said July 1 that there is a new confirmed case bringing the county’s total to 34. The new case is a male under the age of 18 and was found through contact tracing of previously confirmed patients, according
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Cascade County City-County Health Department said June 30 that three more COVID-19 cases have been confirmed in the county. That brings the total to 33 cases in the county and 16 new cases since June 13. The new cases are a female in her 40s, a female in her 60s and a male in his 70s. Two new COVID-19 cases
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The Great Falls July 4 parade has been cancelled. According to organizer Lola Galloway, the parade was cancelled at the request of the Cascade County City-County Health Department, the Cascade County Commission, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and the Cascade County Board of Health. “We as a team have worked hard and outside the box to develop several plans,
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Cascade County City-County Health Department said June 29 that it had been notified of two new cases, bringing the county to a total of 30 confirmed COVID-19 cases. One of the new cases is a female in her 20s and the other is a male in his 20s. That makes 13 new cases since June 13. One of them is
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Cascade County City-County Health Department said tonight that it was notified of the 28th confirmed COVID-19 case in the county. The new case is a female in her 30s. CCHD did not specify how this case was contracted. The Electric has asked for that information and will update when it’s available. That makes the 11th new case in the county
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Cascade City-County Health Department said June 26 that it had been notified of the 27th confirmed COVID-19 case in the county. The new case is a woman in her 40s associated with out-of-state travel, according to CCHD. That makes the 10th new case confirmed in the county since June 13. Before that, the county had gone a month with no
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This year’s July 4 parade and fireworks will be a bit different. Under the direction of the Cascade City-County Health Department and the City of Great Falls, parade and fireworks show organizers have developed plans following the Phase 2 guidelines and COVID-19 preventive measures. To allow for social distancing, the parade has doubled the route and has added “people pods”
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During a June 24 press conference, Gov. Steve Bullock and state health officials discussed the recent spike in COVID-19 cases and clusters in several areas. Big Horn County, the Crow Reservation and Yellowstone County have had a cluster of new cases, as has Custer County. During the presentation, Stacey Anderson, the state’s lead epidemiologist said contact tracing is a complicated
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Uncertainty over how a proposed church downtown would impact existing and future development has prompted city staff to pursue an ordinance that would supplant state law and allow them to exist within 600 feet of each other in certain zoning districts. Initially, city staff planned to handle the conditional use permit application for a church in the vacant space at
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