COVID-19 cases reported in single day are increasing drastically in Mongolia. Today (29 March), the country confirmed 575 new cases after testing more than 13 thousand samples in 15 laboratories nationwide. All of the cases, with the exception of one passenger from a charter flight from Frankfurt, were locally transmitted.

So far, Mongolia has 7589 confirmed cases of COVID-19; over 90 percent of them are locally transmitted. The total number of cases in the Mongolian capital city of Ulaanbaatar has reached 6468. Eleven of the 21 Aimags (provinces+ have confirmed cases of coronavirus. These are: