‘Patient Number One’ – the French national who became the first patient with Covid-19 in Mongolia has been discharged today (27 April) from the National Centre for Communicative Diseases after 47 days of treatment. He has been placed at the ‘Enkh Saran’ health resort for further observation. The 57-year-old began receiving treatment at the NCCD on 10 March as soon as he was confirmed as having coronavirus. He arrived on 2 March in Mongolia and contacted directly nearly 300 people before falling ill. Fortunately, all of the people who had been in direct contact with him tested negative on coronavirus.

Currently, Mongolia has 38 confirmed cases of COVID-19; two of them were diagnosed having coronavirus at the weekend (25-26 April) after repeated testing. All confirmed cases of coronavirus are imported from abroad. Of this group, 10 patients with coronavirus now fully recovered.