COVID-19: 1,875 new cases, two deaths reported
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Ulaanbaatar
/MONTSAME/. The Ministry of Health has reported today, August 19 that 1,875 new cases of COVID-19 have
been detected after conducting tests nationwide within the past 24 hours. More
specifically, 600 new cases were detected in the capital city, with 1,275 cases
in rural regions.
In the last 24 hours,
1,672 coronavirus patients made recoveries. Furthermore, two new COVID-19
related deaths has been reported.
Of a total of 9910 patients
currently undergoing treatment at hospitals, there are 5,676 patients in mild,
3,216 in serious, 832 in critical, and 186 in very critical conditions.
As of today, August 19,
a total of 2,033,613 people have received the second dose of vaccines against
COVID-19, equal to 62.5 percent of the total population of Mongolia, and 2,221,121
people or 68.3 percent of the population have gotten their first shots.
A total of 2,945
citizens were involved in immunization in the capital city yesterday, August 18.
Specifically, 600 people received their first shots of COVID-19 vaccine while 2,079
people have gotten their second shots and 266 people were vaccinated with the third
dose.