Published on: Friday, January 22, 2021
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Anger mounted after TV footage showed what appeared to be a new mother and baby being moved to an infectious disease centre in temperatures of minus 25 degrees Celsius.
ULAANBAATAR: Mongolia’s Prime Minister Khurelsukh Ukhnaa
(inset) resigned Thursday following protests and public outrage over the treatment of a coronavirus patient and her newborn baby.
Landlocked Mongolia reported just a handful of Covid-19 cases last year after imposing strict border controls, but in November its first domestic transmissions caused a new wave of lockdowns and restrictions.
Anger mounted this week after TV footage showed a woman who appeared to have recently given birth being moved to an infectious disease centre wearing only hospital pyjamas and plastic slippers, despite temperatures dipping to minus 25 degrees Celsius.
Mongolian PM resigns after protests over Covid infected mother’s treatment
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Landlocked Mongolia reported just a handful of Covid-19 cases last year after imposing strict border controls.
Mongolia’s prime minister resigned Thursday following protests and public outrage over the treatment of a coronavirus patient and her newborn baby.
Landlocked Mongolia reported just a handful of Covid-19 cases last year after imposing strict border controls, but in November its first domestic transmissions caused a new wave of lockdowns and restrictions.
Anger mounted this week after TV footage showed a woman who appeared to have recently given birth being moved to an infectious disease centre wearing only hospital pyjamas and plastic slippers, despite temperatures dipping to minus 25 degrees Celsius.