748.5 thousand tests have been conducted in Uzbekistan Since the start of the coronavirus epidemic, of which 18.6 thousand over the last day, Botir Kurbanov, first deputy director of the Sanitary and Epidemiological Surveillance Agency, said at a briefing on Friday.
Over the past two weeks, out of 937 confirmed coronavirus cases, 412 (47%) were detected among the locals, while 525 (53%) among citizens who returned from abroad.
Currently, 49.1 thousand citizens are quarantined. Of these, 26.7 thousand were placed in home quarantine and 22.3 thousand in stationary.
According to Botir Kurbanov, there are 45 laboratories in the country for conducting PCR screening for coronavirus, 75 devices for express PCR are operating around the clock.