Mr. L.Munkhtushig, Director General of the Consular Department of the MongolianForeign Ministry reported that Mongolian Airlines (MIAT) will conduct a charter flight to South Korea on 15 January. Some 150-160 Mongolians are expected to be repatriated with the Seoul flight.

Mongolia has conducted some 1.2 million coronavirus tests; 509 thousand of them were rapid tests and remaining were PCR.
So far, 415 thousand people have taken coronavirus tests.
A total of 1525 people are under isolation at 31 quarantine centres

According to an open budget survey (OBS) conducted by the International Budget Partnership, Mongolia ranked 41st out of 117 countries with a transparency score of 56, Montsamereports.
Mongolia’s transparency score of 56 in the OBS 2019 is moderately higher than its

U.S.Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defence Heino Klinckand Mongolia Ministry of Defence State Secretary D.Gankhuyag have held a virtual meeting to conduct the 17th annual U.S.-Mongolia Bilateral Consultative Council. Because of the time difference, the meeting took place onJan.5 (Washington, D.C.)

Top-ranked sumo wrestler Hakuho has coronavirus.
The Mongolian-born star took a COVID-19 test after losing his sense of smell, the Japan Sumo Association said on Tuesday.
The 35-year-old rikishi was preparing for the New Year Grand Tournament starting on Sunday in Tokyo.
The

Today (6 January), Mongolia confirmed 41 new cases of coronavirus, bringing the total number to 1349. Five medical workers from the National Centre for Communicative Diseases and people who have had direct contact with the recent epicenters in Ulaanbaatar. On

On Monday (4 January), the Mongolian Government took the decision to extend the second degree emergency situation in the capital city of Ulaanbaatar for five days due to the worsening pandemic situation. Therefore, UB residents will have to stay at

The number of COVID-19 infections in Mongolia rose to 1286 after 23 new cases were recorded in the past 24 hours, Mongolia’s National Centre for Communicable Diseases (NCCD) reported onMonday (1 January). A total of 19 people from epicenters of

A new world record for high air pressure has provisionally been set in a high mountain valley in Mongolia.
An automatic weather station in Tsetsen-Uul, in thewestern province of Zavkhan, recorded a mean sea-level pressure of 1,094.3 millibars along with bitter

Mongolia’s foreign exchange reserves reached 4.5 billion U.S. dollars at the end of this year, hitting an all-time high.
The record was attributed to measures taken by the Bank of Mongolia to ensure the stability and adequacy of foreign exchange reserves