More than 130,000 Mongolians have returned home since 26 January; over 3000 of them were evacuated on the 15 charter flights and the remaining 5007 by trains or buses.

Last week, Mongolia evacuated 1070 of its nationals from Russia, Turkey and India.

As of today (19 May), a total of 10761 Mongolians who have been staying in 46 countries, have applied to return home, said Colonel B.Uuganbayar, Deputy Chief of the National Emergency Management Agency. Among them, are 896 elderly people, 2815 students, 358 children and 158 people with short-term visas; all have applied for seats on charter flights.