ULAN BATOR, Jul 23 (NNN-XINHUA) – Mongolia reported 1,243 COVID-19 cases in the last 24 hours, after 7,200 tests had been conducted across the country, bringing the national tally to 153,782, the country’s health ministry said today.
Five of the latest confirmed cases were imported from abroad and the remaining were local infections, the ministry said in a statement.
Meanwhile, six more deaths were reported, raising the national count to 788, it said.
So far, at least seven cases of the Delta variant have been detected in the country, it added.
Delta, a variant first identified in India and also referred to as a “double mutant” because it carries two mutations, is 55 percent more transmissible than the Alpha variant, first discovered in Britain, and will rapidly become the dominant strain of coronavirus globally, according to the World Health Organisation.
Mongolia launched a national vaccination campaign in late Feb, with the aim of vaccinating at least 60 percent of its population of 3.3 million.
Over 58 percent of the Asian country’s total population has been fully vaccinated against the virus so far.– NNN-XINHUA
