As of Thursday, April 22, 2021, Montana reports 107,718 confirmed COVID-19 cases, with 189 new cases reported in the last day: 56 in Gallatin County, 21 in Cascade County, 16 in Yellowstone County, 14 in Missoula County, 13 in Park County, and more new cases in 25 more Montana counties. The number of active coronavirus cases in Montana has increased to 1,047. Currently, 62 people are being treated in Montana hospitals for COVID-19. The most active cases are in Gallatin, Yellowstone, and Cascade Counties. 1,557 people have died in Montana of COVID-19. Nationwide, more than 569,000 Americans have died of COVID-19. There have been 31,900,000 cases of coronavirus in the US, and counting.

Tribal leaders and conservation advocates are urging Montana’s governor to veto two bills that would make it harder to restore wild bison in the state. Governor Gianforte announced that the Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks would be throwing out its Bison Conservation and Management Plan after a settlement with a property rights group. The bison management plan, which had been in the works for nearly a decade, offered tribes and nonprofits a vehicle for proposing bison restoration projects in the state. Last January, ranchers under the name the United Property Owners of Montana sued FWP over the plan, claiming officials neglected to adequately analyze the impacts of disease transmission between bison and livestock.

In Michigan, a record-breaking number of children have recently been hospitalized with Covid. Experts blame a more transmissible variant, which appears to be spreading faster among children and adults.

Once one of the world’s most powerful travel documents, the might of the United States passport has been diminished during the pandemic. With US Covid-19 cases now past the 31.6 million mark, some nations continue to view American vacationers warily even as more Americans get vaccinated.