COVID-19: 23 new cases detected

Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/. At the regular press briefing of the Ministry of Health today on January 4, it has been reported that 23 new cases were detected in Mongolia after testing 12,621 people nationwide within the past 24 hours. Specifically, two citizens who arrived on a charter flight from Tokyo on December 20, two workers of Central Military Hospital and 19 contacts of previously-detected cases tested positive for COVID-19. No new infections were recorded in other parts of the country. The total number of COVID-19 cases in the country has so far reached 1,263, of which 878 have made recovery. In addition, nine patients discharged from the hospital in the past 24 hours. Currently, there are 398 people undergoing treatment at the hospitals, of which nine are in critical, 125 are in serious and 262 are in mild health condition.