ULAN BATOR, Oct 28 (NNN-MONGOLIAWEB) – Mongolia is planning to operate at least 10 chartered flights in Nov, to bring home more nationals stranded overseas due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the country’s foreign ministry said Tuesday.
More than 1,900 Mongolian nationals are expected to return home on the planned flights, according to the ministry.
Following its suspension of international commercial flights, Mongolia brought more than 26,100 nationals home on chartered flights, buses or trains, from different places around the world.
It decided to extend the country’s heightened state of readiness, including the suspension of international passenger flights, for two more months until the end of this year.
As of Tuesday, the country reported a total of 340 COVID-19 cases, all of which were imported, mostly from neighbouring Russia.
No local transmissions or deaths have been reported in Mongolia, so far.– NNN-MONGOLIAWEB
