Mongolia registered 1,230 new COVID-19 infections over the past 24 hours, bringing the national tally to 453,053, the country’s health ministry said Thursday. The latest confirmed cases were all locally transmitted.

Meanwhile, three more COVID-19 patients aged over 60 died in the past day, pushing the death toll to 2,137, it said.

So far, 66.7 percent of the country’s total population of 3.4 million have received two COVID-19 vaccine doses, while more than 1,008,100 people aged over 18 have received a booster.

More than 82,600 Mongolians have received a fourth dose, which the country started to administer on 7 January on a voluntary basis