Mongolia is imposing a three-year ban on hunting marmots. The reason behind the decision is preventing the bubonic plague from spreading to people, and determining the current range and population size of marmots in the country.

The bubonic plague is a

In recent days, the capital city and some northern and central provinces of Mongolia have been covered with white smoke, which is from Russia’s Siberian wildfires.

According to the meteorological agency, the smoke will repeatedly cover northern parts of Mongolia as

Mongolia’s westernmost province of Bayan-Ulgii was a Covid-19 free zone until 2 June; however, a person who arrived from Ulaanbaatar was confirmed having coronavirus while in quarantine at home. Now, within two months, the province has 2721 confirmed cases of

Today (3 August), Mongolia confirmed 1019 new cases of coronavirus: 220 in the capital Ulaanbaatar and 799 in the provinces. This indicated that Covid-19 infection is decreasing in Ulaanbaatar, but increasing across the rest of the country. Separately, four people

A total of 78 people have been killed in 67 water-related accidents across Mongolia so far this year, the country’s National Emergency Management Agency said on Monday. Unfortunately, 17 of them were children.

According to the agency, 29 of them lost

A total of 782 people have died of Covid-19 in Mongolia since November, 2020, when the country of three million confirmed its first local transmission.

Earlier today (26 July), Mongolia’s Health Ministry reported that eight people aged between 21 and above

An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.2 struck northern Mongolia on Thursday morning, according the country’s Institute of Astronomy and Geophysics.

The quake happened about 49 km south of Yeruu Soum (administrative subdivision) of Selenge Province at 9:12 a.m. local time

On 20 July, Mongolian Health Minister S.Enkhbold, reported that two cases of the Covid-19 Delta variant have been confirmed in the 13 samples sent to Columbia University in New York. Also, one case was confirmed in samples examined at the