Since the coronavirus outbreak began, Mongolia has evacuated 5100 of its citizens with chartered flights from pandemic-hit countries. Despite difficulties, such as air crews having to go into quarantine along with the people they have flown home, the evacuation flights are to continue.

Mongolia is considering conducting more flight to Seoul as its Incheon International Airport has developed into a transport hub for evacuation flights in the Southeast Asia region where nearly 300 Mongolians struck. According to L.Munkhtushig, Director General of the Consular Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Mongolia will evacuate its nationals from India, Turkey and Russia. A total of 2000 Mongolians have applied to its embassy in Moscow to return home.

Currently, some 9900 Mongolians who are stuck in foreign countries have applied for the evacuation charters and the number is increasing day by day. Mongolia is conducting evacuation flights to the maximum of its ability, but these are constrained by its capacity of receiving and isolating suspected people – along with the air crews –  as soon as they arrive.