ULAN BATOR, Nov 14 (NNN-MONGOLIAWEB) – A total of 27 children from the same class of a kindergarten have been put on quarantine, at the Central Military Hospital, in Mongolia’s capital Ulan Bator, after a four-year-old boy in their class tested positive for COVID-19 yesterday, according to the country’s State Emergency Commission (SEC).
The boy is son of a 29-year-old Mongolian transport driver, who returned home from Russia, via Altanbulag border point, and tested positive for the virus four days after he was released from a 21-day mandatory isolation on Nov 6, Yangu Sodbaatar, deputy prime minister and head of the SEC, said, at a press conference.
The driver’s wife tested positive for the virus on Wednesday and was believed to be the first domestically transmitted COVID-19 case in the country.
So far, six domestically transmitted COVID-19 cases, linked to the driver have been reported in the country.
As of yesterday evening, the Asian country has 414 confirmed COVID-19 cases, with no deaths.– NNN-MONGOLIAWEB
