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Seventh county resident dies of COVID-19

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.

Three Beaverhead residents die from COVID in a week

Three Beaverhead County residents died of COVID-19 last week, two in area hospital facilities and one in Missoula County, public health officials said.

Two more residents die from COVID-19 this week

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.

Fourth county resident dies from COVID-19

Editor's Note: Beaverhead County Public Health announced a calculation error over the number of county cases after this story was posted. The correct information is below.

A man in his 70s died Monday from the coronavirus, the fourth Beaverhead County resident to die of the virus to date.

The man was hospitalized in Missoula County and died there. Beaverhead County Public Health reported the death on its Facebook page Thursday.

Health board officials spar over mask effectiveness, local enforcement

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 County seeing more COVID hospitalizations

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The ongoing coronavirus case climb is starting to fill up hospital beds locally.

County COVID cases exceed 500

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

Health board, public discuss local COVID case rise

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A wide-ranging hours-long Beaverhead County-City Board of Health meeting Monday outlined an explosion of coronavirus positive cases in the community and how it is affecting health care officials.

City may jump off city-county health board

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In what often seemed like something akin to a nasty divorce proceeding, the Dillon City Council during its regular meeting last week considered the city government’s long relationship with the Beaverhead County-City Health Board and the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic that has strained that bond.

Gov. issues statewide mask mandate

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Beaverhead County added more than 120 new COVID-19 cases in the past week, joining an explosion of cases statewide.

The growth in new cases and deaths statewide the past few weeks prompted Gov. Steve Bullock to institute a statewide mask mandate – regardless of active case counts – starting Friday, Nov. 20.