COVID-19: 1582 new cases, five deaths reported
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Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/. The Ministry of Health has reported
today, August 18 that 1,582 new cases of COVID-19 have been detected after
conducting tests nationwide within the past 24 hours. More specifically, 452 new
cases were detected in the capital city, with 1,130 cases in rural
regions.
As of today, the total number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in
Mongolia now stands at 186,537. In the last 24 hours, 1,879 coronavirus
patients made recoveries. Furthermore, five new COVID-19 related deaths has
been reported, raising the country’s death toll to 889.
Of the total patients currently undergoing treatment at
hospitals, there are 5,294 patients in mild, 3,055 in serious, 848 in
critical, and 196 in very critical conditions.