ULAN BATOR, Dec 22 (NNN-MONGOLIAWEB) – The Mongolian government decided yesterday, to reimpose lockdown measures in the capital city, starting tomorrow, to curb resurging local COVID-19 cases.
The measures of “a state of public disaster preparedness and a 24-hour lockdown in the capital city Ulan Bator,” will be in effect from 6:00 a.m. tomorrow, for two weeks, to stem the spread of the virus, Deputy Prime Minister, Yangu Sodbaatar, said.
The decision came, after the capital city’s Bayanzurkh District General Hospital became a new epicentre of domestic transmissions, with over 60 cases detected there in the last few days.
The country’s first round of local transmissions was detected in early Nov, when a woman tested positive, after her husband, returning from Russia, finished his 21-day mandatory isolation.
The incident triggered a nationwide lockdown, later extended in Ulan Bator and two provinces until Dec 11.
As of yesterday, Mongolia reported a total of 993 COVID-19 cases, more than half of which were locally transmitted.
The country recorded 509 recoveries and no deaths so far.– NNN-MONGOLIAWEB
