ULAN BATOR, Sept.22 (Xinhua) -- A total of 2,288 Mongolian nationals have returned to their homeland on nine chartered flights since the beginning of September, Mongolia's State Emergency Commission (SEC) said Tuesday.
Most recently, a chartered flight from Seoul to Ulan Bator arrived here on Monday evening, with 256 passengers onboard, the SEC said in a statement.
Mongolia planned to send a total of 14 special flights this month to COVID-19-hit countries to repatriate more nationals.
Following its suspension of international commercial flights during the COVID-19 pandemic, Mongolia has repatriated more than 22,000 nationals on chartered flights, trains and buses from different parts of the world, according to the commission.
As of Tuesday, Mongolia has reported a total of 313 COVID-19 cases, all of which were imported.
No local transmissions or deaths have been reported in the country so far. Enditem
