Dropping from 14 to 10 days

Reducing the COVID-19 quarantine period from 14 to 10 days is being requested by at least two Jefferson County school divisions and administrators, and is based on new data from the Centers for Disease Control.

Montana City School Trustee Marta Bertoglio, at a Dec. 10 Community Transition Advisory Committee meeting, said the Board of Trustees voted to have the school administration send a letter to the Jefferson County Health Board asking that the quarantine period be reduced. 

Whitehall District Superintendent Hannah Nieskens, who also sits on Governor-elect Greg Gianforte’s COVID-19 Task Force, would also like the Health Board to reduce the time frame.