COVID-19 pandemic in Mongolia

COVID-19 pandemic in Mongolia
COVID-19 pandemic community cases in Mongolia (as of 25/12/2021):   Confirmed 1~9   Confirmed 10~99   Confirmed 100~999   Confirmed 1,000~9,999   Confirmed 10,000+
Disease	COVID-19
Virus strain	SARS-CoV-2
Location	Mongolia
First outbreak	Wuhan, Hubei, China
Index case	Dornogovi
Arrival date	10 March 2020 (4 years, 3 months and 1 day)
Confirmed cases	1,011,481[1] [2]
Recovered	981,809 (updated 31 October 2022) [2]
Deaths	2,136[1] [2]
Government website
https://covid19.mohs.mn/

The COVID-19 pandemic in Mongolia was a part of the ongoing worldwide pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The COVID-19 pandemic was confirmed to have reached Mongolia when its first case was confirmed in a French man who traveled from Moscow to Dornogovi on 10 March 2020.^[3]

Mongolia is the fifth most affected country in East Asia, after South Korea, Japan, North Korea and Taiwan. As of 25 May 2022, there are 469,885 cases and 2,179 deaths in the country.^[2]

On 20 June 2021, Mongolia overtook China in terms of the number of COVID-19 cases, becoming the third most affected country in East Asia. Three days later, on 23 June, the number of COVID-19 cases in the country crossed the 100,000-mark. On 26 August, the number of COVID-19 cases in Mongolia crossed the 200,000-mark. More than a month later, on 29 September, the number of COVID-19 cases in the country crossed the 300,000-mark. On 13 January 2022, the number of COVID-19 cases in Mongolia crossed the 400,000-mark.