The East Asia country Mongolia recorded 2,213 new Covid-19 cases over the last 24 hours, raising the nationwide tally to 100,263, the country's health ministry said Wednesday. One of the latest confirmed cases was imported from the abroad, and the remaining ones were local infections. Mongolia's Covid-19 surge continues, and since mid-June, more than 2,000 Covid-19 infections have been reported daily in the country with a population of 3.3 million.
According to international media reports, Ulan Bator, which is home to over half of the country's total population, is the hardest hit by Covid-19. More than 81,100 of the total confirmed cases in the country were detected in the capital city. Currently, general hospitals of all 21 provinces and over 40 hospitals in the capital city are receiving only severe Covid-19 patients. Due to a shortage of hospital beds and medical staff, the country has been treating asymptomatic or mild Covid-19 patients at their homes since March.
The country's national death toll rose to 487 after 10 fatalities were reported in the past day. Mongolia lacks medicines and equipment that are essential for critically ill Covid-19 patients, according to the country's health ministry. Mongolia launched a national vaccination campaign against Covid-19 in late February, with the aim of covering at least 60 percent of its total population. A total of 1,918,397 Mongolians have so far received their first dose of vaccines, with 1,709,223 people having been fully vaccinated, according to the ministry.
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