During the briefing of the Health Ministry on April 14, Head of the National Center for Infectious Disease D.Nyamkhuu reported that 13 Mongolian nationals who were evacuated from Russia tested positive for the coronavirus.

“The confirmed COVID-19 cases in Mongolia became 30, including five recovered cases. On April 13, one recovered patient was discharged from hospital after two negative test results and is allowed to stay at home and advised to self-isolate for 14 days. Previously, four people recovered at the National Center for Infectious Disease. On April 13, 500 people were tested for the coronavirus. Currently, 260 people test results came out negative for COVID-19.”

Mongolia has been taking measures to prevent coronavirus infection since January. The current 30 confirmed cases in Mongolia are all imported, four of them are foreigners and the rest are Mongolians who were evacuated from other countries. The government decided to evacuate its nationals from countries with high risk of infection. All evacuees were isolated at hospitals, sanatorium and hotels in Mongolia. The coronavirus is forcing the world to take drastic prevention measures such as ban on all public activities, which has never happened in recent years.

As of Tuesday 12:30 p.m., more than 26,000 new infections were reported in the US in the past 24 hours, the highest number of infections, bringing the total number of the infected to 586,000 and the number of deaths to 1,505 in the country. The number of recovered people in the country has reached 36,000. The number of infections reported in the United States alone accounts for 30.5 percent of the world's reported infections.

More than 170,000 people tested positive for COVID-19 in Spain, accounting for 8.8 percent of the world's infections, Italy accounts 8.3 percent (more than 159,000 cases), France 7.2 percent (136,000 cases) and Germany 6.7 percent (130,000 cases). About 88,000 people have been infected in the United Kingdom, accounting for 4.6 percent of all infections. More than 82,000 cases have been reported in China, where the outbreak first occurred, accounting for 4.2 percent of the world's all infections.