The total number of Uzbeks evacuated from Ukraine via Poland on 11 flights by March 4 has reached 2,579 people, announced the official representative of the Foreign Ministry Yusup Kabulzhanov.

President Shavkat Mirziyoyev today spoke to the President of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev over the telephone, the presidential press service said.

In Uzbekistan, since August 2021, 45.6 thousand workers, who refused to be vaccinated against coronavirus, have been suspended from work. This was announced on February 23 by the head of the Service for Sanitary and Epidemiological Welfare and Public Health Bakhodir Yusupaliyev.

91 coronavirus cases were officially confirmed in Uzbekistan on March 2, being the lowest figure since January 4, the Ministry of Health said. 51 cases were detected in Tashkent city, 9 cases were confirmed in Tashkent province.

Recently, story surfaced in social networks about the alleged recruitment of the Uzbek military into the army units of foreign states. In particular, on February 25, a video was posted on social networks showing an Uzbek-speaking driver driving a truck with Russian troops in the Donbass.

Evacuating the Uzbek embassy in Kyiv is not being considered, the Foreign Ministry spokesman Yusup Kabulzhanov said on Wednesday.

On March 2, President Shavkat Mirziyoyev hosted the UN Under-Secretary-General/Head of the Counter-Terrorism Department Vladimir Voronkov, who arrived in the country to attend the Tashkent International Conference on the UN Global Anti-Terrorism Strategy, the presidential press service said.

Termez Province Railway Junction of Uzbekistan Railways received the delivery of freight and passenger locomotive from China on Wednesday.

The Telegram channel of the Ministry of Justice: Legal Information recalled that the recruitment of citizens of Uzbekistan to serve in foreign paramilitary and law enforcement agencies will entail criminal liability.

On March 2, Foreign Minister Abdulaziz Kamilov hosted the UN Under-Secretary-General - Head of the UN Counter-Terrorism Office Vladimir Voronkov, who arrived in Uzbekistan to attend the high-level international conference "Regional cooperation between the states of Central Asia within the framework of a joint action plan for implementation of the UN global counter-terrorism strategy ”, to be held on March 3-4 in Tashkent, the Foreign Ministry said in a statement.

Uzbekistan today received the delivery of special syringes and boxes for their safe disposal worth $669,000 as part of the global COVAX mechanism, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF).

An estimated two million children have been taken out of child labour and half a million adults out of forced labour since the reform process of the Uzbekistan’s cotton sector began seven years ago.

Uzbekistan and India will soon hold joint military drill. While, the Indian authorities offered the Uzbek authorities a soft credit line for purchase of defense equipment.

95 coronavirus cases were officially confirmed in Uzbekistan on March 1, the Ministry of Health said. 57 cases were detected in Tashkent city, 13 cases were confirmed in Tashkent province.

From September 1, 2022, the government will pay maternity benefits to women in Uzbekistan working in the private sector, announced President Shavkat Mirziyoyev on March 1 at a conference call meeting.

Celebrating the 30th anniversary of Uzbekistan and other Central Asian states’ membership of the United Nations, UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, commends their progress towards eradicating statelessness. In 2021, over 46,000 stateless persons acquired a nationality in Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan or Uzbekistan.

With funding from USAID, three large Uzbekistani horticulture exporters and the Export Promotion Agency of Uzbekistan attended the annual World Ag Expo in Tulare, California from February 8-10, 2022.  This was the first time any Uzbekistani fruit exporter had attended the event.

The Legislative Chamber at a meeting on March 1 approved the candidacies of the new Minister for Emergency Situations and the Minister for Support of the Mahalla and Family, Nigoh Telegram channel, close to the Presidential Administration, reported.

On March 1, at 9:15 a.m., a second special Uzbekistan Airways plane arrived in Tashkent from the Polish city of Katowice with 258 Uzbeks evacuated from Ukraine, announced the official representative of the Uzbek Foreign Ministry Yusup Kabulzhanov. The first flight arrived late on the evening of 28 February.

96 coronavirus cases were officially confirmed in Uzbekistan on February 28, the Ministry of Health said. 49 cases were detected in Tashkent city, 20 cases were confirmed in Tashkent province.