Ulaanbaatar
Around 68,000 people in Mongolia partially vaccinated for COVID-19
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Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/. The State Emergency Commission gave an update on the COVID-19 vaccination process on March 11, Thursday.
On March 11 alone, a total of 19,620 people have been partially vaccinated, making the total number of the people who received their first dose of vaccine against COVID-19 around 68,000, including healthcare workers responding to COVID-19, emergency management and police officers, professional inspection workers, primary level public service employees and employees of strategically important enterprises and banks.
On this day, March 11, teachers and employees of public and private educational organizations and sales and service industry started receiving the vaccine. Around 34,615 teachers and educational employees are planned to be partially vaccinated within 2-3 days.
On March 10, employees of Ulaanbaatar Electricity Distribution Network JSC, Ulaanbaatar city maintenance departments, wastewater treatment plant, and University of Internal Affairs received their first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine.
The Ministry of Health has reported that 75,000 people will be vaccinated until the end of this week and on March 12, Friday, around 17,825 people will receive a dose of the vaccine at 40 locations around Ulaanbaatar.
As of now, Mongolia has received 150,000 doses of AztraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines from India, 300,000 doses of Sinopharm vaccine from China and 10,000 doses of Sputnik V vaccine from Russia and is planning to receive more doses of vaccines from abroad in coming days, including 14,400 doses of AstraZeneca vaccine.
