Social Archives - Page 126 of 160 - News.MN

Despite no cases, Mongolians prep for battle against COVID-19

Mongolian Foreign Minister D.Tsogtbaatar told Xinhua in a recent interview that China has taken “highly organized measures” to contain the COVID-19 outbreak.
Mongolians have donated cash and supplies to support their government’s efforts to prevent the spread of the coronavirus despite

Mongolian Health Ministry receives recyclable face masks

Earlier today (4 March), the Social Democracy-Mongolian Women’s Association donated 30,000 face masks to the ministry of health. Over 100,000 members from the association joined for producing recyclable face masks for contributing in the fight against coronavirus.

There are now almost

Mongolia cuts working hours for mothers

The Secretariat of the State Great Hural (parliament) has decided to cut working hours for mothers and, also, single fathers who have children under the age of 12. The decision comes in the context of preventing the coronavirus infection and

Mongolia’s ‘Wuhan flight crew’ awarded

On 3 February, Mongolia evacuated 31 students and a child from the Chinese city of Wuhan, following the outbreak of the new coronavirus. After the successful evacuation, the flight crew from the national flag carrier MIAT along with the students

Earthquake tremor shakes Erdenet

A magnitude 5 earthquake was reported earlier today (3 March) near Erdenet, the third largest city in Mongolia. According to the Institute of Astronomy and Geophysics, the earthquake occurred at 3.16 p.m. and the epicenter was 6 km from the

Long queue at UB road post after nationwide lockdown

As roads between the provinces and cities re-opened today at 6.00 a.m., a long queue of cars quickly formed at the road posts on the highways into the Mongolian capital, Ulaanbaatar. The National Emergency Commission (NEC) took the drastic step

Coronavirus update: Mongolia quarantines 410

As of today (3 March), the coronavirus infection has been reported in 73 countries; nine of them are first cases; 38 countries have below 10 cases.

Since 6 January, Mongolia has taken 810 people into observation for suspected coronavirus infection. Currently,

WHO team arrive in Mongolia

A team from the World Health Organisation (WHO) arrived earlier today (2 March) in Mongolia to advise and support the country in preventing the spread of coronavirus outbreak that, so far, has killed more than 3000 people in China and