Mongolians are chafing at the government’s anti-covid curbs
The economy has been battered and there is not much of a safety net
VAST, POOR, and landlocked, Mongolia is hard to defend against covid-19. Yet its record fighting the plague had looked quite good until recently. Its first documented case of domestic transmission came only in November. Infections have since spread across the capital, Ulaanbaatar, home to nearly half the country’s 3.2m people. The government claims, improbably, there have been no deaths.
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