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The health department directive follows a major COVID-19 outbreak at a Billings memory care community.

The same day health officials announced a coronavirus outbreak at a Billings assisted living facility, Gov. Steve Bullock said Tuesday that his public health department will order all assisted living and nursing home facilities in the state to test all employees and residents before allowing any more visitors. The emergency order will give the state “stronger enforcement” authority to ensure such facilities are conducting adequate testing — which Bullock faulted the Billings facility for declining to do — to allow visitation and prevent outbreaks among their vulnerable populations. […]

$1.8 billion in PPP loans have been approved to 22,785 Montana recipients, from hospitals to the Church Universal and Triumphant.

Tens of thousands of businesses and nonprofit organizations across Montana have benefited from the Paycheck Protection Program, a massive federal effort that has routed billions of dollars into subsidized bank loans intended to help small businesses keep workers on payroll during the economic disruption prompted by the coronavirus pandemic. Data released this week by the U.S. Small Business Administration provides the first detailed accounting of the businesses aided by the program, indicating that Montana’s loan recipients span nearly the full width of the state’s economic landscape. […]

As of Tuesday, July 7, Montana reports a total of 1,327 confirmed COVID-19 cases, including 80 new cases since yesterday, 588 active cases, and 23 deaths from the disease. State officials also report that 117 of the cases have resulted in hospitalizations, with 22 patients currently hospitalized, and 716 patients considered recovered. […]

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