As of Friday, August 20, 2021, Montana reports 122,318 confirmed COVID-19 cases, with 449 new cases reported in the last day: 88 new cases in Yellowstone County, 62 new cases in Flathead County, 58 new cases in Missoula County, 53 new cases in Cascade County, and more new cases in 36 more Montana counties. The number of active coronavirus cases in Montana is 3,473. Currently, 200 people are being treated in Montana hospitals for COVID-19. More than 90% of the people hospitalized for COVID-19 are unvaccinated. 1,755 people have died in Montana of COVID-19. Three more people have died of COVID-19 since yesterday. Nationwide, more than 626,000 Americans have died of COVID-19. There have been 37,500,000 cases of coronavirus in the US, and counting.

The US is extending travel restrictions for non-essential travel at its land borders with Canada and Mexico through at least September 21 because of increasing case numbers and deaths from the Delta variant of the coronavirus. The US has been limiting non-essential travel along both borders since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic and extending those restrictions on a monthly basis.

Yellowstone National Park logged its first million-visitor month in July, a milestone symbolic of the heavy tourist traffic across the country’s national parks, as visitors travel to wide-open spaces in response to—and in spite of—the surging delta variant of COVID-19. Yellowstone hosted 1,080,000 visitors in July, Yellowstone’s busiest month ever.

Montana State Prison this week reported its first COVID-19 cases among inmates at the facility since May. Three new cases were reported Wednesday. That brings the total number of coronavirus cases among inmates at Montana State Prison to 493 since the first case infiltrated the facility in October.