COVID-19 spread continues to drop in Hill County

Hill County Health Director and Health Officer Kim Larson said Friday that the county’s drop in COVID-19 spread is continuing as plans are made for the rollout of vaccines.

Larson said, during the Hill County Board of Health’s weekly update, only 522 new cases of COVID-19 were recorded that day in Montana, significantly lower than just a few weeks ago. She said this is definitely a good sign.

Hill County, as of last Thursday at 10 p.m., had 72 active cases of COVID-19, and the health department is following 79 people who are in quarantine, she said, a drop of about 30 people from the...