Улаанбаатар
Permitted businesses and services to run their operations during strict quarantine
Society
Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ Regarding with the decision to impose strict quarantine in the capital city on February 11-23, Deputy Prime Minister S.Amarsaikhan presented the types of businesses and services that are allowed to run their operations normally during this period. These services include:
- Electric heating, water supply, decontamination and sewerage activities
- Healthcare organizations, pharmacies, medical equipment distribution organizations
- Gas and fuel supply
- Food production, trade, distribution, supermarkets, hypermarkets, minimarkets, grocery stores, wholesale trade, reserve meat and livestock fodder trade
- Sterilization, disinfection and cleaning services
- Loading and transport services
- Online banking services, ATM
- Refined coal factories, supply, distribution and sales points
- Post office, communications, media
- Funeral services
- Repairs and other services
- Special purpose agencies
- Higher legislative body
- Public and local self-governing organizations / 15 percent of the staff will work at workplace under time restriction/
- State-owned organizations of particular and strategic importance /Ulaanbaatar Railways, Chinggis Khaan airport/
- Livestock hay and fodder distribution and transportation
- Outdoor maintenance service
- Special duty vehicles for production and distribution
Furthermore, public transport will serve for limited number of passengers between 08 am and 18 pm. Traffic movement in and out of the capital city will also be restricted and only vehicles for providing health, emergency, special duty services and funeral services will be allowed.
In addition, “One door-one testing” measure will be implemented during the period of the strict quarantine. 280 medical teams will work to perform diagnosis and testing on 420 thousand households in 10 days. 38 PCR machines will be used alongside establishing 73 testing points in the capital city. It is planned to operate over 90 mobile points if necessary.
