AKIPRESS.COM - Mongolia reported 3 new cases of COVID-19 in the last 24 hours taking its total to 197, the National Center for Communicable Disease (NCCD) head Dulmaa Nyamkhuu said on Friday.

241 tests for COVID-19 were conducted across the country on Thursday and 3 of them were positive. The newly confirmed cases are Mongolian nationals who returned home from Kazakhstan on a chartered flight on Wednesday, Nyamkhuu said.

6 more patients have recovered raising its national count to 95, he added.

All confirmed cases in Mongolia, including five foreigners, were imported, mostly from Russia.