ULAN BATOR, June 1 (Xinhua) -- Mongolia reported six new cases of COVID-19 over the last 24 hours, bringing the national count to 185, the country's National Center for Communicable Disease (NCCD) said Monday.
"A total of 371 tests for COVID-19 were conducted in the country yesterday and six of them were positive," NCCD head Dulmaa Nyamkhuu told a daily press conference.
The new patients are Mongolian nationals who returned home from Russia on May 15, said Nyamkhuu.
All the COVID-19 cases in Mongolia were imported, mostly from Russia. Among them, a total of 44 patients, including four foreigners, have recovered.
No local transmissions or deaths have been reported in the Asian country so far. Enditem
