ULAN BATOR, June 26 (Xinhua) -- Mongolia has reported three new cases of COVID-19 in the last 24 hours, taking its total to 219, the country's National Center for Communicable Disease (NCCD) said on Friday.
"A total of 171 tests for COVID-19 were conducted across the country on Thursday and three of them were positive," the NCCD's head Dulmaa Nyamkhuu told a daily press conference.
The newly confirmed cases are Mongolian students who took a chartered flight on Thursday to return home from Russia, Nyamkhuu said.
Meanwhile, one more patient has recovered, raising the national count to 170, he added.
No local transmissions or deaths have been reported in Mongolia so far. Enditem
