Mongolia reported four new COVID-19 cases today (13 August), bringing the total tally to 297. Two of the new cases are Mongolian citizens who returned home from the Czech Republic on a chartered flight on Tuesday, and the other two are Mongolian nationals who returned home from Russia.

“A total of 487 tests for COVID-19 were conducted across the country yesterday and four of them were positive,” said A.Ambaselmaa, head of  Surveillance Department of National Centre for Communicable Diseases (NCCD).

All the confirmed cases in Mongolia have been imported, mostly from Russia.

Separately, Mongolia has registered 269 recoveries, but no local transmissions or deaths from the contagious disease.