ULAN BATOR, July 24 (Xinhua) -- Mongolia has reported one new case of COVID-19 in the last 24 hours, taking its total tally to 288, the country's National Center for Communicable Diseases (NCCD) said Friday.
"A total of 709 tests for COVID-19 were conducted across the country yesterday and one of them was positive," the NCCD's head Dulmaa Nyamkhuu told a daily press conference.
The latest case is a 39-year-old Kazakh transport driver who has recently entered Mongolia via the Altanbulag border point, said Nyamkhuu.
Meanwhile, three more patients have recovered from the disease, raising the total to 217, he added.
All the confirmed cases were imported, mostly from Russia, according to the NCCD.
No local transmissions or deaths have been reported in the country so far. Enditem
