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The number of COVID-19 infections rose to 318 in Mongolia, according to the country's National Center for Communicable Diseases (NCCD) on Monday.
"A total of 2,027 tests for COVID-19 were conducted across the country in the last three days and three of them were positive," the NCCD's head Dulmaa Nyamkhuu said at a press conference.
Two of the latest three new cases are Mongolian nationals who returned home from Japan on a chartered flight on Saturday, and the rest one is a Mongolian transport driver who came back from Russia via Altanbulag border point on Oct. 8, Nyamkhuu said.
All 318 confirmed cases were imported and, among them, 310 patients have recovered from the disease.
The Asian country has not seen a single COVID-19 related death or local transmission so far. Enditem
Published Date:2020-10-13