Today (8 April), Mongolia confirmed 86 new COVID-19 infections, bringing the national tally to 469,017.

No new related deaths were recorded in the past day, and the country’s COVID-19 death toll remains at 2,177.

Currently, there are 843 active cases across the country.

Life has essentially returned to normal in Mongolia due to high vaccination coverage and declining daily infections.

Almost 67 percent of the country’s population of 3.4 million have received two COVID-19 vaccine jabs, while 1,032,876 people have received a third dose and 115,185 have received a voluntary fourth shot.

The Asian country has resumed in-person classes for all educational institutions and fully opened its borders to foreign tourists, who are no longer required to have a polymerase chain reaction test or be quarantined.