MONGOLIA TO EVACUATE ITS CITIZENS FROM SOUTH KOREA, JAPAN, AND OTHER COUNTIES

Under the directive of Prime Minister U.Khurelsukh, the Cabinet at its meeting today decided to evacuate 1,000 Mongolians in South Korea, Japan, and other countries who have urgent needs through Moscow and Istanbul by four charter flights.

Elderly people, women who are pregnant or have newborns, people with disabilities, and postoperative patients will repatriate first by an aircraft of MIAT Mongolian airlines. The Government of Mongolia will cover the costs for testing those citizens for COVID-19 in the countries they are staying and after returning to their home country, the evacuees will spend 14 days in quarantine at their own expenses.