2021-01-20 17:05:18
Ulaanbaatar
/MONTSAME/ The American Chamber of Commerce in Mongolia (AmCham Mongolia) held
its virtual January Monthly Meeting on “Addressing COVID-19 Pandemic in
Mongolia” on January 19, 2021.
The
meeting was attended by representatives of the AmCham community, foreign and
national investors, embassies, and international organizations. His Excellency
Ya.Sodbaatar openly talked about the measures being taken to address the
COVID-19 pandemic, the challenges the nation is facing, necessary steps to be
taken, and answered AmCham members’ questions.
In
his opening remarks, AmCham Mongolia’s Chairman Jay Liotta quotes, “AmCham
Mongolia completed online surveys twice in the last 10 months to assess the
2021-01-20 12:17:43
Ulaanbaatar
/MONTSAME/ Deputy Prime Minister Ya.Sodbaatar yesterday held a virtual meeting with
ADB Country Director for Mongolia Pavit Ramachandran, exchanging views on
non-refundable aid and technical assistance projects and programs that are included
in partnership strategy to be co-implemented with Mongolia in 2021-2024.
ADB has provided financing of USD 3.2 billion to Mongolia in
the past 28 years and tangible results have been made in numerous
areas including education, health, society, finance, infrastructure and urban
planning.
During the meeting, Deputy PM expressed gratitude on issuing
loan worth USD 158.8 million targeted to preventing and taking responsive
measures against the pandemic, reducing negative impacts of the pandemic on the
United Arab Emirates donates medical supplies to Mongolia
AKIPRESS.COM - The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has donated 48 tons of medical supplies to support Mongolia to contain COVID-19 infection, Montsame reports.
The supplies included 450 boxes of medicines, medical supplies, face masks and protective gear and equipment.
In regard with it, President Kh.Battulga today received Deputy Prime Minister, Head of the State Emergency Commission Ya.Sodbaatar and Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the UAE to Mongolia Abdullah Abdul Rahman Al-Tunaiji.
Emphasizing that the aid of medicines and medical supplies donated by the UAE is essential to healthcare workers and emergency officers working at frontline to combat the COVID-19 pandemic, the President expressed sincere gratitude to the government heads of the UAE on behalf of the people of Mongolia and personally.
2020-12-21 17:48:46
Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/. At its irregular meeting held today on December 21, the Cabinet made the decision to reintroduce strict lockdown partly in Ulaanbaatar city starting from 6 AM, December 23 until 6AM, January 6.
During the press conference, Deputy Prime Minister Ya.Sodbaatar highlighted that the decision was made based on the suggestions received from the Ministry of Health, the National Center for Communicable Diseases as well as scholars and researchers. He also noted that the measures have been set to be implemented from 6 AM December 23 in order to provide the opportunity for citizens who had left for rural parts of the country to return to the capital city and make necessary preparations.