On August 19, the President Shavkat Mirziyoyev signed the Additional measures to support freight carriers Decree on Saturday.

Bo Andersson from Sweden has been appointed as the new director general of UzAuto Motors and UzAuto Motors Powertrain, the Uzavtosanoat said in a statement.

The German Embassy in Tashkent announced the closure of its visa section until further notice. The diplomatic mission linked this with "the current extraordinary situation," the Embassy said in a statement.

The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and the Ministry of Agriculture of the Republic of Uzbekistan agreed to expand collaboration to support agricultural development in Uzbekistan.

The Ministry of Health reported of a record daily 855 people diagnosed with coronavirus and 371 with pneumonia in Uzbekistan yesterday. "As of August 17, 2021, the number of registered coronavirus infections in Uzbekistan stands at 149,058 (+851)," the report said.

A batch of 3 million doses of the Chinese-Uzbek COVID vaccine, ZF-UZ-VAC2001 was delivered from China to Uzbekistan on Sunday evening, the Ministry of Health said.

Uzbekistan is cooperating with a number of countries on the evacuation of their nationals from Afghanistan, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement.

The government issued a decision appointing Bekhzot Normatov as the new chairman of Uztransgaz replacing Ulugbek Sayidov, the Ministry of Energy said in a statement.

The First Deputy Minister of Investments and Foreign Trade Laziz Kudratov has been appointed the Director General of the newly created Strategic Development Agency.

The Defense Industry Committee is planning to attract Chinese technologies in joint projects, the Committee said in a statement.

The first deputy Kokand city mayor, A.N., was detained, Xabar.uz reported, citing a source in law enforcement agencies.

A Lockheed C-130H Hercules military aircraft of the Polish Air Force delivered 50 people from Afghanistan to Uzbekistan on August 18, PAP reported, citing Polish Deputy Foreign Minister Marcin Przydacz.

As per the instruction of the chairman of Uzbekneftegaz, Mehriddin Abdullayev, work is underway to create a geographic database of pipelines and producing fields, the company said in a statement.

The surgeons of the Republican Specialized Scientific-Practical Medical Center of Surgery named after Academician V. Vahidov successfully performed an orthotopic liver transplantation surgeries.

On August 18, the President Shavkat Mirziyoyev had a telephone conversation with the German Chancellor Angela Merkel, the presidential press service reported. The leaders discussed the situation in the region against the backdrop of events in Afghanistan.

Uzbekistan has accommodated more than 100 Afghan refugees in a tent camp in the Termez district of the Surkhandarya province near the border with Afghanistan.

The Tashkent's domestic flights airport (Tashkent-3) will be closed for certain period from August 19 for technical reasons, Uzbekistan Airways said. 

The Ministry of Health reported of a record daily 851 people diagnosed with coronavirus and 398 with pneumonia in Uzbekistan yesterday. "As of August 17, 2021, the number of registered coronavirus infections in Uzbekistan stands at 145,615 (+851)," the report said.

The President Shavkat Mirziyoyev held a telephone conversation with the German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier on August 17, the presidential press service said.

The Taliban held their first official news conference in Kabul on Tuesday since the shock seizure of the city, declaring they wanted peaceful relations with other countries and would respect the rights of women within the framework of Islamic law.