114 students return from Russia
Another charter flight brought back Mongolian students from Russia, landing at Chinggis Khaan International Airport at 6:53 a.m. on June 25.
Some 114 students have returned home and will be isolated for 21 days in the dormitory of the Mongolian National University.
Related officials reported that the delegation led by Head of the General Staff of the Armed Forces D.Ganzorig and 75 members of the Mongolian Armed Forces who attended the 75th Anniversary Victory Parade of the Great Patriotic War in Russia will return on June 25.
In addition, the State Emergency Commission decided to evacuate 120 students from Russia due to COVID19.
Over 11,600 Mongolian citizens situated throughout the world have applied to return to Mongolia. This number is increasing day by day. About 10,000 people have returned to Mongolia since it declared a high level of preparedness and closed its borders, officials said. Despite the closure and quarantine in the country due to the pandemic, the government is evacuating its citizens from abroad, prioritizing people with urgent necessity. Special flights and other means of evacuation are being organized.
More than 2,400 people were repatriated this month on 10 special mission flights. In the first half of July, the State Emergency Commission said it would operate five flights to Seoul, Tokyo and Istanbul to evacuate some 1,300 people.
The special mission aircraft bringing 255 Mongolian nationals including four people with disabilities, 17 students, 15 older people, 26 people with underlying health condition, 103 families with small children, three pregnant women and 98 citizens with other urgent need from the United States, landed at 10:45 a.m. at Chinggis Khaan International Airport on June 24. The evacuees were put into 21day mandatory isolation at the National Center for Infectious Diseases, the Central Military Hospital, Bagabayan sanatorium, and Toyoko Inn and Erkhes hotels.
The US charter flight carried donations from the government of Mongolia worth 1 million USD to the USA to provide personal protective equipment for physicians and medical staff working on the front lines of response against COVID19. This was the first direct passenger flight from Mongolia to the USA.