The President of Mongolia, Battulga Khaltmaa, has been taken into quarantine after returning from a trip to China, State media said Friday.
Khaltma and other government officials submitted to a 14-day quarantine, the State news agency Montsame reported.
Battulga was the first Head of State to visit China since the country began battling the coronavirus outbreak in January.
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He arrived in Beijing with Foreign Minister Tsogtbaatar Damdin and other senior government officials on Thursday, and held a meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping and Premier Li Keqiang.
They were taken into quarantine on Friday as soon as they arrived in Mongolia as a precautionary measure, Montsame said.