ULAN BATOR, Jan. 11 (Xinhua) -- The number of foreign visitors to Mongolia in 2020 plummeted by 89.5 percent from the previous year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, according to official data.
Mongolia received a total of 66,900 foreign visitors last year, the National Statistics Office said on Monday.
The sharp decline in foreign tourist arrivals is directly related to the prolonged measures to contain the global COVID-19 outbreak, according to the office.
Mongolia has taken measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19 since February 2020, including suspension of international passenger flights.
As of Monday, the Asian country has reported 1,442 COVID-19 cases, more than two-thirds of which were locally transmitted.
The country with a population of 3.3 million has so far registered two COVID-19-related deaths and 896 recoveries. Enditem