Coronavirus

It's becoming a broken record: another day, another several hundred cases of COVID-19 in Gallatin County. Of the 1,831 new cases in Montana, 503 of them are in Gallatin County.

Playing in the Sand had been scheduled to kick off Jan. 7 in Cancun, Mexico.

It's becoming a regular occurrence. Gallatin County tops the State of Montana in new cases of COVID-19, and also has the highest number of current cases of all Montana counties with 835.

The Recording Academy and CBS have pushed back the awards show once again.

As of Tuesday, nearly 40% of all new positive COVID-19 cases in Montana were in Gallatin County. There are 408 active cases with 159 new cases recorded according to the State of Montana COVID-19 dashboard.

"I beg you and implore you to go and get jabbed if you're not already, because you need the help."

One of the stops was their Welcome to Rockville appearance.

At least we're ahead of Alabama and West Virginia. While some Montanans are scrambling for their COVID-19 booster shot, so many have clearly indicated they're not interested in any shot at all.

It hasn't been a great week for Montana's new positive COVID-19 case count. With Gallatin County's vaccination rate sitting idly at 61% (which is better than many counties in the state), where do we go from here?

As of Friday morning, Montana has confirmed 146,035 positive COVID-19 cases.

Out of Montana's 1,144 new cases of COVID-19, Gallatin County had 176 of them...the highest number of new cases in the state as of Thursday morning's update.

As of Wednesday morning, Montana has confirmed 143,826 positive COVID-19 cases.