Over the last two months, Mongolia commenced recovery from the third wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. The number of COVID-19 cases and deaths began to decline as the vaccination coverage increased, including booster shots.
The number of patients under critical care decreased from 300 by 1 November to 63 by 12 December 2012. At the beginning of December, the daily newly detected cases ranged between 136-268, with two to three deaths per day on average. This is the lowest daily number of COVID-19 cases recorded in Mongolia since 17 March 2021.
As of 12 December, the total number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Mongolia stood at 385,353, and the country’s COVID-19 death toll reached 1,960. During the reporting period, six cases were imported and confirmed as the Delta variant. The current nationwide regime of heightened readiness, the Orange Level of regulations, will expire on 31 December 2021.