On Thursday, Mongolia recorded 19 new coronavirus fatalities, its highest coronavirus deaths for a second day running, as infections rise driven by the Delta variant despite high vaccination rates. The new figure brought the country’s total deaths from Covid-19 to 1,277.

So far, Covid-19 tally in Mongolia has reached 304,084.

As of today (30 September), over 71 percent of Mongolian population had been fully vaccinated against Covid-19.