In January, Mongolian health authorities warned that residents should brace themselves for a potential jump in coronavirus cases after the widely-celebrated Lunar New Year holidays. The traditional Mongolian holiday was celebrated across on 2-4 February. With the highly-transmissible omicron variant, health officials expected that daily Covid-19 numbers in the country will continue to rise to 60 thousand.

However, Mongolia registered today (14 February) 553 new cases, raising the national count to 456,866. Furthermore, a man aged above 80 has died of Covid-19; bringing Mongolia’s toll to 2146. This shows  that sharp decline in the number of new COVID-19 cases.

Amid a worldwide surge in Omicron variant infections, the Government of Mongolia adheres a strategy to widely involve the population in the third dose of coronavirus vaccine and administer the fourth dose on voluntary basis to pass the new wave, avoiding from imposing strict lockdown.

The citizens will voluntarily get the fourth dose after three months since their third dose. In addition, coronavirus infected citizens, who had the third dose can receive their fourth dose after 21 days since their recovery.

Currently 66.8 percent of the population have received two shots of coronavirus vaccine while 31 percent have had the third shot. Separately,   2.8 percent of adults in Mongolia or 90,000 people have had fourth dose of vaccine against Covid-19.