COVID-19 pandemic in Mongolia

COVID-19 pandemic in Mongolia
Disease	COVID-19
Virus strain	SARS-CoV-2
Location	Mongolia
First outbreak	Wuhan, Hubei, China
Index case	Dornogovi
Arrival date	10 March 2020 (5 years, 1 month and 11 days)
Confirmed cases	186[1]
Recovered	65^[source?]
Deaths	0[1]
Government website
https://covid19.mohs.mn/

The COVID-19 pandemic was confirmed to have spread to Mongolia when its first case was confirmed in a French male who traveled from Moscow to Dornogovi on 10 March 2020.^[2]

On 10 March, Deputy Prime Minister Ölziisaikhany Enkhtüvshin announced that a French national arriving in Ulaanbaatar via a flight from Moscow was the first confirmed COVID-19 case in the country.^[2][3]

That same day, Onom Foundation protested that Mongolia only has 160 ventilators (1 per 20,000 compared to America's 1 per 2,000).^[4]

References

1. Johns Hopkins CSSE. "Coronavirus COVID19 (2019-nCoV)" (ArcGIS). Coronavirus COVID-19 Global Cases. Retrieved March 21, 2020.
2. "Монголд ирсэн франц иргэнээс "COVID-19" илэрлээ". MONTSAME News Agency (in Mongolian). Retrieved 2020-03-10.
3. "Mongolia confirms its first coronavirus case in French worker". Reuters. 10 March 2020. Archived from the original on 27 March 2020. Retrieved 19 June 2020.
4. "The Government is about to make yet another MISTAKE by sending further charter flights". Gogo Mongolia.