1.1 million people now fully vaccinated in Mongolia, total coronavirus cases reach 56,621

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baljmaa@montsame.gov.mn
2021-05-29 11:58:03

Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/. Daily COVID-19 press briefing for today, May 29, by the Ministry of Health, reported that 769 new coronavirus cases were detected after a total of 8,600 PCR tests were performed nationwide in the past 24 hours. 


In specific, 681 new cases were confirmed in Ulaanbaatar city and 87 cases were detected in rural regions, including Orkhon, Bulgan, Khuvsgul, Khovd, Tuv, Arkhangai, Tuv, Khentii, Dornod, Dornogobi, Uvurkhangai and Gobi-Altai aimags. As a result, the nationwide infection tally is now 56,621, with the cases registered in the capital city grown to 50,139.  


In the last 24 hours, 571 coronavirus patients were recovered, making the number of COVID-19 recoveries 49,320. As of May 29, a total of 4,345 coronavirus patients are being treated at hospitals in Ulaanbaatar city and the rural aimags. Among them, 467 patients’ health are in serious conditions, reports the National Center for Communicable Diseases (NCCD), the primary healthcare organization in the country responding to the pandemic. Another 2,665 patients who are experiencing mild symptoms are being treated at home under surveillance of family health clinic while taking home isolation precautions.


NCCD also reported five new COVID-19 related deaths, raising the country's death toll to 268. The casualties are COVID-19 patients aged between 47 and 90 years old, who were being treated at NCCD in Ulaanbaatar city.  


As of May 28, a total of 1,850,493 people have received the first dose of vaccines against COVID-19, equal to 89.5 percent of the nationwide vaccination target – 2,067,292 adult populations or 60 percent of the total population of Mongolia. Among them, 1,107,178 people or 53.6 percent of the vaccination target have gotten their second shots. 


Since the vaccine rollout was launched in February 2021, nearly 99.4 percent of the total adult population of Ulaanbaatar city or 946,929 people have gotten the first shot of COVID-19 vaccines, and 694,872 people /72.9 percent of the target/ in the capital city have been fully immunized. In rural regions, the number of the fully vaccinated people is at 412,306 and the partially vaccinated - 903,564. 


The government of Mongolia has collected a total of 4,701,160 doses of vaccines, including AstraZeneca, Sinopharm, Sputnik-V and Pfizer-BioNTech through procurement and international assistances. The government is working towards fully immunizing Ulaanbaatar city’s adult population before June 1, and complete vaccine rollout for rural adult population within June 15, 2021. 

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