Khaltmaagiin Battulga visited China to meet President Xi Jinping amid an outbreak of deadly infection. The emergency apparently was not considered too big a risk to cancel the planned high-profile event, but Mongolian authorities decided their leader doesn’t get a pass on safety rules.
 
So after returning to Ulaanbaatar on Thursday he and all the officials who accompanied him were placed in two-week isolation, the news agency Montsame reported. They were also tested for the coronavirus, the report said, without specifying if any of the tests were positive.
 
Among the officials swiped in the quarantine are Mongolia’s foreign minister, ambassador to China, national emergencies chief, the president’s chief of staff and foreign policy advisor. They will be spending their next two weeks at resort in an isolated mountainous area of Mongolia while President Battulga will be held at a clinic in the capital.

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