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June 21 (Xinhua) -- Mongolia reported two new cases of COVID-19 in the last 24 hours, taking the national count to 206, the country's National Center for Communicable Disease (NCCD) said Sunday.
"A total of 314 tests for COVID-19 were conducted across the country yesterday and two of them were positive," the NCCD's head Dulmaa Nyamkhuu told a daily press conference.
One of the new patients is a 66-year-old Russian driver who has recently entered Mongolia via Altanbulag border point, while the other is an 80-year-old Mongolian national who returned home from Europe on a chartered flight on Saturday, said Nyamkhuu.
All the 206 confirmed cases in Mongolia are imported ones, mostly from Russia. Among the confirmed cases, 139 people have recovered.
No local transmissions or deaths have been reported in the country so far. Enditem
Published Date:2020-06-22