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A woman in her 80s died of COVID-19 on Friday, public health officials announced. The woman was hospitalized in a Beaverhead County facility.

"Public health is saddened by the loss of several community members in the last few weeks due to COVID-19 and our hearts and prayers go out to all of the family and friends of these individuals," health officials said in a statement late Monday.

The county has 703 total cases with 55 active as of 5 p.m. Monday, according to public health's Facebook page.

Two Beaverhead County men – one in his 80s and one in his 90s – died Friday from the coronavirus, public health officials say.

The deaths mark the fifth and sixth residents to die from the virus in the county since the start of the pandemic, and the third resident this week. A man in his 70s died Monday from the coronavirus.

The two men died in a Beaverhead County health facility, Beaverhead County Public Health reported on its Facebook page.

Read more about the county's local virus spread in next week's Dillon Tribune.

Last week’s Beaverhead County-City board of health meeting was more educational than procedural, with community members and officials discussing local coronavirus spread and ways to mitigate it.

Beaverhead passed another coronavirus milestone Friday, surpassing 500 positive cases countywide.