Ulaanbaatar
Mongolian citizens abroad called on to stay in the countries
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During a press briefing of the operative team of the State
Emergency Commission, Chief of the National Emergency Management Agency,
Major-General T.Badral notified that decision has been made not to receive
foreign nationals in Mongolia. However, the decision will not belong to coal
truck drivers from the Russian Federation.
He said “The novel coronavirus infections have been recorded in
155 countries of the world with over 150 thousand confirmed cases and over 6500
deaths. The World Health Organization announced that Europe has now become the
epicenter of the pandemic. The Government of Mongolia and the State Emergency
Commission have taken the same measures as all other countries. It is getting
more risky for the country to receive flights further. Because there were
citizens who shown symptoms of the infection among the evacuees carried on the
charter flights from overseas countries and they are held in isolation in the
National Center for Communicable Disease. Since repatriation of its citizens
repeatedly increases risk, maybe there will be no way other than restricting
this movement further. Therefore, we are calling on our citizens to be halted
in the countries they are residing or staying and stay healthy in order to
ensure security of the country.
Some 800 citizens are returning to their home country on three
charter flights. Furthermore, a charter plane has taken off from Japan this
morning at 09:00 am and it will land at 20:25 at the Chinggis Khaan International
Airport.
Another charter plane of the MIAT Mongolian Airlines is to take
off from Istanbul on March 18 to carry citizens who made requests to
arrive their home country.
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