Ulaanbaatar
Mongolia sees decline in daily COVID-19 cases with 856 new cases
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Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/. Daily COVID-19 press briefing for today, April 26, Monday, by the Ministry of Health reported that 856 new coronavirus cases were detected in the past 24 hours across the country.
In specific, 744 new cases were confirmed in Ulaanbaatar city, three cases are imported cases from abroad, and 112 cases were detected in rural regions, including Zavkhan, Darkhan-Uul, Orkhon, Erdenet, Uvurkhangai, Dundgobi, Sukhbaatar, Khovd, Selenge and Tuv aimags.
As a result, the nationwide infection tally is now 31,339, with the cases registered in the capital city reached 27,259.
In the last 24 hours, 1,060 coronavirus patients were recovered and discharged from hospital, making the number of COVID-19 recoveries 16,815.
As of April 26, a total of 4,451 coronavirus patients are being treated at hospitals in Ulaanbaatar city and in the rural aimags. And another 7,765 patients who are experiencing a mild disease are being treated at home while taking home isolation precautions.
The National Center for Communicable Diseases, the primary healthcare organization in the country responding to the pandemic, also reported two new COVID-19 related deaths, raising the country's death toll to 80. The casualties are COVID-19 patients aged 61 and 64 years old, who were staying at hospitals in Ulaanbaatar city.
