The Missoula City County Health Department is now strongly encouraging all residents to start wearing masks when indoors, and to upgrade the kinds of masks worn by adults and children.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued new recommendations this week shortening isolation and quarantine periods for the Omicron variant.
The Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services reported on Monday afternoon that the state has recorded its first two cases of COVID 19 caused by the new Omicron variant.
KGVO reached out to Missoula City County Health Department’s Incident Commander Cindy Farr for local reaction to the newest development with COVID 19 called the Omicron Variant.