ULAN BATOR, June 22 (Xinhua) -- Mongolia reported seven new cases of COVID-19 in the last 24 hours, taking the national count to 213, the country's National Center for Communicable Disease (NCCD) said Monday.
"A total of 359 tests for COVID-19 were conducted across the country yesterday and seven of them were positive," NCCD head Dulmaa Nyamkhuu told a daily press conference.
Four of the new patients are Mongolian nationals who returned home from Kazakhstan on a chartered flight on June 10 and two are Mongolian nationals who arrived in the capital from Seoul on a chartered flight, said Nyamkhuu.
The remaining one is a Mongolian driver who returned home via Altanbulag border point, the official added.
All the 213 confirmed cases in Mongolia are imported ones, mostly from Russia. Among the confirmed cases, 153 people have recovered.
No local transmissions or deaths have been reported in the country so far. Enditem
