27 children quarantined in Mongolian capital after boy tests positive for COVID-19

ULAN BATOR, Nov. 13 (Xinhua) -- A total of 27 children from the same class of a kindergarten have been put on quarantine at the Central Military Hospital in Mongolia's capital Ulan Bator after a four-year-old boy in their class tested positive for the COVID-19 on Friday, according to the country's State Emergency Commission (SEC).

The boy is son of a 29-year-old Mongolian transport driver who returned home from Russia via Altanbulag border point and tested positive for the virus four days after he was released from a 21-day mandatory isolation on Nov. 6, Yangu Sodbaatar, deputy prime minister and head of the SEC, said at a press conference.