Mongolia reports 2 new COVID-19 cases, 193 in total
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ULAN BATOR, June 6 (Xinhua) -- Mongolia reported two new cases of COVID-19 over the last 24 hours, taking its total to 193, the country's National Center for Communicable Disease (NCCD) said Saturday.
"A total of 255 tests for COVID-19 were conducted across the country on Friday and two of them were positive," the NCCD's head Dulmaa Nyamkhuu told a daily press conference.
The latest cases are Mongolian students who returned home from Russia via Altanbulag border point on May 28, Nyamkhuu said.
All the confirmed cases in Mongolia, including four foreigners, were imported, mostly from Russia. No local transmissions or deaths have been reported in the country so far.
One more patient has recovered from the disease, raising the total number to 71, said the official.
On March 10, a French national tested positive for the novel coronavirus, becoming the first confirmed COVID-19 case in Mongolia. Enditem
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