First COVID-19 patient in Mongolia returns home after recovery

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anudari@montsame.gov.mn
2020-05-04 13:12:10

Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ A French citizen, who was recorded as the first Covid-19 patient of Mongolia, has fully recovered after 47-days of treatment and returned home on a charter flight from Ulaanbaatar to Frankfurt on May 2.


Director of the National Center for Communicable Diseases (NCCD) D.Nyamkhuu saw the recovered patient off and the French national expressed his gratitude to the Government of Mongolia, staff of NCCD, and the medical team led by Ts.Chinbayar.


The first Covid-19 patient in Mongolia had been reported to have tested positive for the virus on March 10 after running a fever from March 7. The patient had then been isolated and treated at NCCD and discharged on April 27.

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