As of Monday, July 19, 2021, Montana reports 114,742 confirmed COVID-19 cases, with 79 new cases reported since Friday: 14 new cases in Flathead County, 11 new cases in Yellowstone County, 10 new cases in Missoula County, 6 new cases in Gallatin County, and more new cases in 18 more Montana counties. The number of active coronavirus cases in Montana is 492. Currently, 62 people are being treated in Montana hospitals for COVID-19. The most active cases are in Flathead, Yellowstone, Missoula, and Gallatin Counties. 1,692 people have died in Montana of COVID-19. Nationwide, more than 608,000 Americans have died of COVID-19. There have been 34,000,000 cases of coronavirus in the US, and counting.

A U.S. women’s gymnastics team member has tested positive for COVID-19 days before the Tokyo Olympics begin. Kara Eaker, an alternate, tested positive Monday in Narita, about 35 miles east of Tokyo, at a training camp. She and another gymnast who was a close contact of Eaker’s are now quarantining in their hotel rooms.

Three fully vaccinated members of the Texas House delegation currently in Washington, D.C., have tested positive for Covid-19. The first positive test result came Friday night, when a member informed the caucus they had the coronavirus. Caucus members and staff took a rapid test, all of which were negative. But two additional fully vaccinated members reported positive test results Saturday morning.

The delta variant of coronavirus, a more transmissible strain that is quickly becoming dominant in the U.S., has arrived in Gallatin County. Two cases of the variant were reported in Gallatin County last Wednesday by the Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services.

This June was Yellowstone National Park’s busiest on record, with recreation visits up 12% from the previous record in June 2016. This year, Yellowstone has seen nearly 1,590,000 recreation visits through the first half of the year — 17% more than in 2019. In the month of June alone, there were nearly 939,000 visitors to Yellowstone National Park.