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Over 10K Mongolians repatriated since coronavirus
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At the press briefing of
the State Emergency Commission on the
regular update on the repatriation campaign of Mongolia, Director General of
the Consular Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs L.Munkhtushig
informed that since the country’s first repatriation flight chartered to Wuhan
city of China on February 3, Mongolia has arranged 22 charter flights until
June 15, and the total number of Mongolians brought from foreign countries by
air and ground transport has reached 10,020.
He further announced that
thanks to the increased medical and hospital capacity, more people will be able
to return home. Additional or third flight of this month to Seoul will be
chartered on June 20 to bring transit Mongolian passengers from Southeast
Asian countries, according to Director General Munkhtushig.
Including the flights made
to Australia, Kazakhstan, Japan and India this month, and the flights to Seoul
on June 17, 18 and 19, flight to Frankfurt on June 19 and Seattle, on June 21
that are already on the plan, a total of nine charter flight will be organized,
bringing 2,300 people from abroad within June 2020.
The Ministry of Foreign
Affairs and the State Emergency Commission have been exerting constant efforts
to make records of Mongolians living around the globe living under distressed
conditions and found that the nationals in Turkey, where over 5,000 Mongolians
reside in, have been living with poorer conditions compared to Mongolians
living in other foreign countries. Therefore, the Consulate General of Mongolia
in Istanbul has started delivering 7-10-day grocery vouchers to more than 580
Mongolians of 168 household families who are facing hardships amid the COVID-19
and will continue with the assistance.
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