17 charter flights, rail services arranged to bring over 9,000 Mongolians home

Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/. The State Emergency Commission’s Operative team held a press briefing to give update surrounding the COVID-19 situation in Mongolia on June 10. Including the latest charter flight arrived yesterday, June 9, from Sydney, Australia, which brought more 262 Mongolians from Australia and the Philippines, Mongolia has arranged a total of 17 charter flights as well as charter rail services, repatriating around 9,324 people from foreign countries, since travel and border movement restrictions were put in place due to COVID-19 global pandemic. The team also reported that 63,259 Mongolians returned home across the country’s border checkpoints for passengers since January 2020. The next one of eight charter flights planned this month will be arriving from Nur-sultan, Kazakhstan on the evening of June 10, today, bringing 175 Mongolians, including 3 infants. In addition, preparations are underway to operate charter flights to India on June 12 to bring mostly Mongolian child monks from there, to Seoul, South Korea on June 17 to bring transit passengers, mostly those who are travelling from the United States, and again to Seoul on June 18 and to Frankfurt, Germany on June 19. Talks are ongoing with the South Korean side to arrange another flight to Seoul within this month to bring Mongolians stranded in the Southeast Asian countries, however, the final decision has not been made.