Mongolia has reported the first case of new COVID-19 variant BF7-1. A 72-year-old man was diagnosed with the BF7-1 variant. This person is a citizen of China and came to Mongolia after working in Russia. He is in isolation and is being treated at a hotel.

A subvariant of the dominant variant of COVID, Omicron, BF.7 has enhanced immunity evasion ability in comparison to its parental strain. Omicron variant and its sub variants are infamous for their immunity escaping properties.

Mongolia reported 772 COVID-19 cases last week. So far, Mongolia confirmed 986,599 cases of coronavirus and 2,179 deaths.

In January, 2022,  Mongolia registered the country’s first cases of the Omicron variant.