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Butte-Silver Bow Health Department confirms 67 new cases of COVID-19

Posted at 5:11 PM, Oct 20, 2020
and last updated 2020-10-20 19:11:28-04

The Butte-Silver Bow Health Department confirmed 67 new cases of COVID-19 on Tuesday, Oct. 20, 2020.

The new cases were confirmed beginning late afternoon Thursday, Oct. 15 through Monday, Oct. 19.

The new cases include:
• four females and two males ages 0-9
• four females and six males in their teens
• four females and five males in their 20s
• four females and five males in their 30s
• five females and seven males in their 40s
• three females and seven males in their 50s
• two females and one male in their 60s
• three females and three males in their 70s
• one female and one male in their 80s

The Health Department has determined that 26 cases are contacts to other cases, 15 cases are household contacts to other cases, and 17 cases are community-acquired. The causes of another nine cases are under investigation.

The new cases bring to a total of 498 COVID-19 cases in Butte-Silver Bow since the county was informed of its first case on March 13.

The Health Department is managing 118 active cases. An estimated 180 people in Butte-Silver Bow are currently quarantined and in the process of being tested.

The Health Department’s numbers related to COVID-19 and the map data featured by the state of Montana at times do not exactly match up, as cases are being confirmed quickly and several cases come out of isolation.