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Mongolia's National Center for Communicable Disease (NCCD) confirmed on Sunday one more COVID-19 case, bringing the total infections in the country to 136.
"A total of 156 tests for COVID-19 were conducted across Mongolia yesterday and one of them was positive," Dulmaa Nyamkhuu, head of the NCCD, said at a daily press conference.
The patient is one of the over 340 Mongolian nationals who returned home on Wednesday from Russia via three Russian military planes, said Nyamkhuu.
All the 136 cases, including four foreigners, are imported ones, mostly from Russia, said Nyamkhuu.
Besides, one more patient recovered from the disease, raising the total number of recoveries in the country to 21, added the official.
A French national tested positive for the virus on March 10, becoming the first case in Mongolia. So far, there have been no local transmissions or deaths reported in the country. Enditem
Published Date:2020-05-17