Today (23 February), Mongolia began its vaccination programme against COVID-19 as Prime Minister L.Oyun-Erdene received the nation’s first jab of the AstraZeneca vaccine.

In the wake of the COVID-19 crisis, India sent 150,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccine to Mongolia on Sunday.

Mongolia has reported 58 new COVID-19 cases within the last 24 hours, bringing its total caseload to 2,551, the National Center for Communicable Diseases (NCCD) said on Friday (19 February).
Meanwhile, 17 more recoveries have been reported, bringing the national count

Mongolia has decided to shorten theisolation period for repatriated citizens to 10 days, said the Director General of the Consular Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs L.Munkhtushig.
Twelve charter flights are scheduled for March, six of which will be to

Mongolia’s coal exports to all destinations in January increased by a significant 57.2% month on month, or by 3% on year, to nearly 2.5 million tonnes, due to the faster pace of coal deliveries across the Mongolia-China border last month,

Global miner Rio Tinto is willing to enter a new agreement with Mongolia to expand its Oyu Tolgoi mine as the government requested, two sources with direct knowledge told Reuters on Thursday (18 February), as both parties look to resolve

The Department of Archaeology at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History is pleased to announce it has received a grant of over 2 million euro from the Arcadia Fund to document the archaeological heritage of Mongolia.

Mongolia’s gross domestic product (GDP) fell by 5.3 percent in 2020 year on year – the first contraction since 2009, said the National Statistics Office (NSO) on Wednesday.
The Mongolian economy was valued at 37 trillion Mongolian Tugriks (12.9 billion U.S.

The Mongolian Government has decided to resume full operations of the Altanbulag border crossing checkpoint with from 23 February. Located in the Selenge Province on the border with Russia, this crossing is one of the most important in the country.

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The Economist Intelligence Unit’s 2020 democracy index ranks Mongolia 61st out of 167 countries rated and classifies it as a “flawed democracy”.

The EIU democracy index, on a 0-10 scale, is based on the ratings for 60 indicators grouped in five

Mongolia’s former Para-Taekwondo world champion, Kh.Enkhtuya, says she wants to inspire others as she bids to become a Paralympic gold medallist at Tokyo 2020.

The 29-year-old struck gold at the 2017 World Championships in London in the women’s under-49 kilograms K44