UPDATE: Additional 121 Yellowstone employees negative for COVID-19; A total of 1,499 Yellowstone surveillance tests have now returned negative since early June

News Release Date: August 19, 2020

Make contact with: Morgan Warthin, (307) 344-2015

MAMMOTH Sizzling SPRINGS, WY –  

Staff Surveillance Tests  

Yellowstone’s August 18 press release reported 121 “pending” staff COVID-19 checks taken late past 7 days. All of these tests have returned negative, bringing the park’s overall asymptomatic unfavorable examination count to 1,499 due to the fact early June (467 unfavorable assessments in the earlier 3 weeks).  

The park, in partnership with the states of Montana and Wyoming and surrounding counties, will exam somewhere around 150 more front-line workers on August 20. More facts about the surveillance testing effort and hard work is offered in park information releases dated June 30 and June 4. 
 

• Whole checks performed to date: 1,499
• Total checks with damaging outcomes: 1,499
• Complete tests with favourable results:
• Whole exams with success pending:

The first information launch, dated August 18, 2020, can be found at go.nps.gov/20036