BUTTE — The Butte-Silver Bow Health Department confirmed 90 new cases of COVID-19, beginning Wednesday, Oct. 21 through mid-day Monday, Oct. 26.
The new cases include:
• two females and two males ages 0-9
• 11 females and four males ages 10-19
• seven females and nine males in their 20s
• three females and nine males in their 30s
• six females and eight males in their 40s
• eight females and three males in their 50s
• one female and six males in their 60s
• five females and two males in their 70s
• one female and two males in their 80s
• one male in his 90s
The Health Department has determined that 34 cases are contacts to other cases, 17 cases are community-acquired, 15 cases are household contacts to other cases, 14 cases are linked to local clusters, and one case is associated with travel.
The causes of another nine cases are under investigation.
The new cases bring to a total of 623 COVID-19 cases in Butte-Silver Bow, since the county was informed of its first case March 13.
The Health Department is managing 164 active cases. An estimated 231 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. The state map is located at https://montana.maps.arcgis.com/apps/MapSeries/index.html?appid=7c34f3412536439491adcc2103421d 4b. Local data and data for Montana Technological University are located at http://co.silverbow.mt.us/2167/COVID-19.