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Park County reports second COVID-19 case

Published on Sat, 03/28/2020 - 6:23pm
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Park County reported a second confirmed case of the coronavirus Saturday afternoon.

Montana now has 147 cases statewide, with 57 in Gallatin County and 26 in Yellowstone County.

So far, there have been eight hospitalizations and one death from the coronavirus in Montana.

LOCAL CANCELLATIONS, POSTPONEMENTS

Published on Fri, 03/27/2020 - 4:00pm

EDITOR’S NOTE: Below is a list of cancellations, postponements and other changes due to coronavirus concerns that The Enterprise knows of. Be aware that Gov. Steve Bullock on March 20 ordered all dine-in food services, bars, casinos and other business that pose enhanced risks to close. Not all those businesses are on this list. The list is roughly in alphabetical order. 

 

Newest additions to list:

• The McNair Gravity Skatepark, located next to the Livingston Civic Center, is closed effective March 24.

Montana Governor: stay home

Published on Fri, 03/27/2020 - 3:59pm

HELENA (AP) — Montana Gov. Steve Bullock on Thursday announced that he’s ordering the state’s 1 million residents to stay in their homes in a stepped-up effort to fight the spread of the coronavirus.

The stay-at-home order goes into effect Saturday and lasts until April 10. Under it, people will be allowed to leave home to shop for necessities such as food, to seek medical care and for outdoor activities — as long as they stay 6 feet apart from one another — among other exceptions. Essential activities, services and businesses will be allowed to continue uninterrupted.

Trump signs $2.2T stimulus after swift congressional votes

Published on Fri, 03/27/2020 - 3:56pm
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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump signed an unprecedented $2.2 trillion economic rescue package into law Friday, after swift and near-unanimous action by Congress this week to support businesses, rush resources to overburdened health care providers and help struggling families during the deepening coronavirus epidemic.

Nation Shorts

Published on Fri, 03/27/2020 - 3:39pm

Space Force launches its 1st mission with virus precautions

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The newly established U.S. Space Force launched its first national security satellite Thursday with a leaner staff because of the coronavirus pandemic.

“Nothing stops the space launch mission!” the 45th Space Wing tweeted from Cape Canaveral. 

US eyes new outbreaks as infections worldwide top 575,000

Published on Fri, 03/27/2020 - 3:38pm

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — New Orleans rushed to build a makeshift hospital in its convention center Friday as troubling new outbreaks bubbled in the United States, deaths surged in Italy and Spain and the world warily trudged through the pandemic that has sickened more than a half-million people.

Punctuating the fact that no one is immune to the new coronavirus, it pierced even the highest echelons of global power, with British Prime Minister Boris Johnson becoming the first leader of a major country to test positive.

On NYC’s front lines, health workers worry they will be next

Published on Fri, 03/27/2020 - 3:35pm

NEW YORK (AP) — A nurse died from coronavirus after working nonstop for weeks at a hospital where staffers frustrated with dwindling supplies posed in gowns made of trash bags. An emergency room doctor fears he had the virus long before getting too sick to work. Another nurse worries the lone mask she’s issued each day won’t be enough to protect her from an unending tide of hacking, feverish patients.

Political turmoil in Kabul dogs negotiations with Taliban

Published on Fri, 03/27/2020 - 3:33pm
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KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — After months of deliberation, Afghan President Ashraf Ghani on Friday announced his 21-member team to negotiate peace with the Taliban, only to have his political opponent reject it as not inclusive enough. 

Afghanistan’s political turmoil has impeded each tentative step toward negotiations with the Taliban — negotiations that are supposed to come next under a peace deal that Washington signed with the insurgents last month. 

British Prime Minister Johnson tests positive for virus

Published on Fri, 03/27/2020 - 3:33pm
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LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has tested positive for the new coronavirus, the first leader of a major nation to contract COVID-19, but he insisted Friday that he remains in charge of the U.K.’s response to the outbreak.

Two of Johnson’s top aides in the fight against the virus — his health secretary and top medical adviser — also said they had the disease.

Johnson, 55, said he was tested Thursday after showing “mild symptoms”: a temperature and a persistent cough.

In Iran, false belief a poison fights virus kills hundreds

Published on Fri, 03/27/2020 - 3:31pm

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Standing over the still body of an intubated 5-year-old boy wearing nothing but a plastic diaper, an Iranian health care worker in a hazmat suit and mask begged the public for just one thing: Stop drinking industrial alcohol over fears about the new coronavirus.

The boy, now blind after his parents gave him toxic methanol in the mistaken belief it protects against the virus, is just one of hundreds of victims of an epidemic inside the pandemic now gripping Iran.