COVID-19 pandemic in Mongolia
details of ongoing viral pandemic in Mongolia
The COVID-19 pandemic was confirmed to have spread to Mongolia when its first case was confirmed in a French male who traveled from Moscow to Dornogovi on 10 March 2020.[2]
| COVID-19 pandemic in Mongolia | |
|---|---|
| Disease | COVID-19 |
| Virus strain | SARS-CoV-2 |
| Location | Mongolia |
| First outbreak | Wuhan, Hubei, China |
| Index case | Dornogovi |
| Arrival date | 10 March 2020 (4 years, 7 months and 17 days) |
| Confirmed cases | 186[1] |
| Recovered | 65[source?] |
Deaths | 0[1] |
| Government website | |
| https://covid19.mohs.mn/ | |
On 10 March, Deputy Prime Minister Ölziisaikhany Enkhtüvshin announced that a French national arriving in Ulaanbaatar via a flight from Moscow was the first confirmed COVID-19 case in the country.[2][3]
That same day, Onom Foundation protested that Mongolia only has 160 ventilators (1 per 20,000 compared to America's 1 per 2,000).[4]
References
change- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Johns Hopkins CSSE. "Coronavirus COVID19 (2019-nCoV)" (ArcGIS). Coronavirus COVID-19 Global Cases. Retrieved March 21, 2020.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Монголд ирсэн франц иргэнээс "COVID-19" илэрлээ". MONTSAME News Agency (in Mongolian). Retrieved 2020-03-10.
- ↑ "Mongolia confirms its first coronavirus case in French worker". Reuters. 10 March 2020. Archived from the original on 27 March 2020. Retrieved 19 June 2020.
- ↑ "The Government is about to make yet another MISTAKE by sending further charter flights". Gogo Mongolia.
