Earlier today (20 May), Mongolians stranded in South Korea demonstrated outside its Foreign Ministry. Elderly people and those with disabilities participated in the peaceful demonstration; for various reasons, such as financial difficulties, they have been unable to secure places on the previous evacuation flights. The demonstrators explained their grave situations and requested answers from the National Emergency Commission of Mongolia regarding when the next evacuation flights will be sent to Seoul?

At the same time as the Seoul demonstration, their family members and relatives in Mongolia demonstrated outside of the National Emergency Management Agency in Ulaanbaatar demanding to meet its deputy director B.Uuganbayar.

Mongolia has so far conducted four charter flights to Seoul to evacuate its nationals since the country cancelled all international flights in mid-February.

As of today (20 May), Mongolia has 140 confirmed cases of coronavirus; all of them are imported.