School COVID-19 cases continue steady increase in Montana - Billings Gazette

Positive COVID-19 cases continued to increase in Montana schools, paralleling a wider increase in active cases across the state.

In Yellowstone County, a large number of cases continued to be unassigned to schools.

Kalispell’s public school system, which does its own reporting in addition to the state report, had 24 active cases and almost 300 students or employees quarantined as of Oct.

13; the state report listed 61 total cases this school year between the district’s two high schools and middle school.

The total number of cases that were assigned to schools rose from 80 to 92 in the county.

The University of Montana in Missoula registered 32 new cases, bringing the schools' total to 241. .

COVID-19 continued to spread among the staff and students in Montana’s K-12 schools and universities during the past week as state health offi…