BUTTE — The Butte-Silver Bow Health Department has confirmed 23 new cases of COVID-19 as of Monday, Oct. 5, 2020.
The new cases were confirmed beginning Friday, Oct. 2 through Monday, Oct. 5. The new cases include:
- two females and two males ages 10-19
- two females and three males in their 20s
- one male in his 30s
- one female and two males in their 40s
- two females and two males in their 50s
- one female and three males in their 60s
- one male in his 70s
- one male in his 80s
The Health Department has determined that eight of the cases are contacts to other cases, and eight cases are community-acquired. How the seven other cases were transmitted is under investigation.
The new cases bring to a total of 315 COVID-19 cases in Butte-Silver Bow, since the county was informed of its first case March 13. The Health Department is managing 51 active cases.
More than 80 people associated with the newly confirmed cases 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.
