Quarantine measures have been announced in two soums (districts) of Khovd Province, in western Mongolia after the bubonic plague has been reported. The quarantine started at 10.00 p.m. on Monday 29 June for undefined period.

According to, the National Centre for

A pregnant woman infected with the novel coronavirus, gave birth to a girl yesterday (29 June) in the National Centre for Communicative Diseases. The baby weighs 3.8 kg and is healthy.

Mongolia has quarantined over 11 thousand its nationals who have

A Mongolian who was repatriated from Kazakhstan has been confirmed as having coronavirus infection at the third test. The passenger tested negative to coronavirus in tests on 11 June and 22 June after having been evacuated from Nur-Sultan in Kazakhstan.

Jankowski’s Bunting has been discovered breeding in south-eastern Mongolia by a team of local scientists in recent days.

The team has been conducting a feasibility study for the World Heritage nomination of the Eastern Mongolian Steppes and, during this, came across

An Asiatic wild ass made history when it became the first of its species to cross into the eastern steppe in Mongolia in nearly seven decades.

The Gobi-Steppe is among the largest grazing ecosystems in the world and home to a

Air pollution in Ulaanbaatar city, where half the Mongolian population lives, decreased visibly last winter after the government halted the use of raw coal. Smoke from the shantytown ger districts, where over 220,000 families live has long been identified as

Today (26 June), three Mongolian students; two man and a woman have been confirmed with coronavirus after having returned from Moscow on the most recent charter flight. Mongolia evacuated 141 students who study in Russia, yesterday (25 June)

So far, Mongolia’s

Flash flooding has destroyed 114 homes – 99 of them traditional gers and the basements of 13 offices; nine apartments are filled with water in the Kherlen Soum of Khentii Province in northern Mongolia. In addition, 80 percent of public