Mongolia’s  President Quarantined after One-day Trip to  China

The Mongolian President Khaltmaagiin Battulga was quarantined after returning from China.

Battulga and the accompanying delegation were quarantined after they returned home yesterday.

They paid a one-day visit to China to express solidarity with the in its recent ordeal.

"Montsamee", a Mongolian news agency, stated that according to the rules and procedures in place in the country the president and his entourage were quarantined to prevent the spread of the Coronavirus in that country which situated on the northern borders of China.

Battulga and the members of the delegation accompanying him underwent a thorough medical examination upon their arrival at the airport.

They were transferred  later to the relevant medical institutions for a two-week quarantine.

According to an official statement, Battulga was admitted  into  a hospital in Ulaanbaatar, the capital city of Mongolia.

However, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Head of the Presidential Court, head of the Emergency Department and other senior officials were transferred to a resort on the outskirts of the capital.

It is noteworthy that, after holding talks with Chinese leader Xi Jinping in Beijing, the Mongolian delegation handed the Chinese leader a certificate confirming the donation of 30,000 sheep to China in the midst of its efforts to fight against the Coronavirus.

Everyone knows in China the feeling. It's day six of a two-week course of antibiotics, and you're feeling much better. You're ready for a return to normality, to being able to drink alcohol and eat what you want without worry, to not stressing about taking your pills at the right time.

Of course, as most people (hopefully) know, stopping antibiotics at this point is the worst possible move, risking a return of the infection or enabling the bug to develop resistance to medicine, potentially putting more people at risk down the line. And yet many people still do it, because it's hard when things feel like they're going back to normal, to continue to follow medical precautions, particularly ones that affect our day-to-day lives.

A similar dynamic is developing with the novel coronavirus. Even as new outbreaks are reported around the world and we edge towards pandemic levels, the situation is stabilizing in some areas where infections were first detected and people are starting to return to normality.

In China particularly, there has been a major drop in the number of new cases reported in the past week, particularly outside of Hubei, the province where the outbreak began. This has led some areas to lower travel restrictions and begin the slow process of getting back to work.