This month, Mongolia will repatriate some 3000 of its nationals with 10 charter flights to Seoul, Frankfurt, Tokyo and Istanbul. So far in July, a total of 855 Mongolians have already returned home on four evacuation flights on 2-7 July.

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At least eight people, two of them children, have lost their lives in the floods caused by the continuous rains in Mongolia. Recently, five people were swept away with their car by flood waters in the South Gobi Province

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Some 30900 Mongolian students took the General Entrance Exam on 2-5 July. According to officials, the exam attendance was 89.5 percent.

This year, 27 students achieved 800 points, which is the highest score in mathematics; 14 of them were from Ulaanbaatar.

At today’s (7 July) session, the Mongolian Parliament approved the structure of the new Cabinet headed by Prime Minister U.Khurelsukh. The Mongolian Cabinet will have 14 ministries – six of them are general and eight are functional. One new development

Five Mongolians aged 20-30 were confirmed earlier today (7 July) as having the coronavirus infection; this brings the total number of COVID-19 cases in the country to 225. The five were among the 85 Mongolians repatriated from Russia yesterday (6

Three more Mongolians have been discharged from the National Centre for Communicative Diseases (NCCD) after having fully recovered from coronavirus.

So far, the country has 220 confirmed cases of coronavirus; 188 of whom have recovered. In other words, Mongolia’s recovery rate

Earlier today (6 July), a Mongolian court sentenced former Prime Minister J.Erdenebat to six years in prison for abuse of power and banned him for six years from working in government office. The trial of the politician has been continuing

A suspected case of bubonic plague has been reported today (6 July) in Bayan-Ulgii, western Mongolian province. According to our sources, a 15-year-old boy with a fever admitted in provincial hospital after handling a dead marmot killed by a dog.

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Under 14 decrees issued by the president, a total of 236 people gave up their Mongolian citizenship in the first half of 2020. The number of Mongolians renouncing their citizenship has increased by 117 people from same period of 2019.

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Quarantine measures announced in two soums (districts) of Khovd Province, in western Mongolia were suspended on Sunday (5 July) from 1.00 p.m. The two soums were closed on 29 May after bubonic plague was reported.

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