Ulaanbaatar
COVID-19 cases surging again in Mongolia
Society
Ulaanbaatar/MONTSAME/. The Ministry of Health today, August
25, has reported that 2,433 new coronavirus cases were detected in the past 24
hours after tests were carried out at PCR laboratories across the
country.
In specific, 850 new cases were confirmed in Ulaanbaatar city with 1,552 cases in rural regions and 31 imported cases. As a result, the nationwide infection tally is now 193,279. The Ministry also reported six COVID-19 related deaths, raising the country's death toll to 913.
Of a total of 11,592 patients currently undergoing treatment
at hospitals, there are 6,772 patients in mild, 3,686 in serious, 947 in
critical, and 187 in very critical conditions.
As of today, August 25, a total of 2,067,391 people have
received the second dose of vaccines against COVID-19, equal to 63.5 percent of
the total population of Mongolia.
As the prevalence of the SARS-CoV-2 Delta variant is rising sharply across the country, the Ministry of Health urges elders, unvaccinated people, and people with chronic disease as well as children under 12 to stay at home.
