A few days ago, information surfaced on the social networks that the prosecutor of Kurgantepa district of Andijan province, Sardor Rajabboev, allegedly attracted employees of the district communal services department to work from spring to autumn in his house yard.

The Ministry of Health reported of a record daily 925 people diagnosed with coronavirus and 493 with pneumonia in Uzbekistan yesterday. "As of August 12 2021, the number of registered coronavirus infections in Uzbekistan stands at 140,210 (+925)," the report said.

The President signed the Measures to further improve system for ensuring the rights of the child decree. The document approved the proposals of the chambers of the parliament on:

On August 11, the President Shavkat Mirziyoyev got acquainted with the projects to improve drinking water supply in the Surkhandarya province, the presidential press service said.

Uzbeks own 2.8 million cars, the State Statistics Committee said in a report on Tuesday. As of January 1, 2021, the number of vehicles owned by individuals in Uzbekistan topped 2,955,295 units. This is by 14.5% more than in 2020.

On August 11, the Foreign Minister Abdulaziz Kamilov hosted the Ambassador of the United States of America Daniel Rosenblum, the Foreign Ministry said.

The government meeting on preparations for the meeting of President Shavkat Mirziyoyev with business executives was held on August 9, the presidential press service said in a statement.

The Ministry of Public Education of Uzbekistan and the Ministry of Education of Russia published 100,000 new textbooks on the Russian language in Tashkent.

Jurabek Laboratories, where Uzbekistan plans to produce the Russian Sputnik V vaccine, has passed quality control in the Russian Federation and will begin mass production of the jab next week, said the company CEO Farrukh Lutfullaev.

The proven reserves of natural gas in Uzbekistan as of January 1, 2021 are estimated at 1 trillion 866.9 billion cubic meters (BCM), follows from the presentation at a meeting chaired by President Shavkat Mirziyoyev on Monday.

Uzbekistan will host the World Youth Rights Conference on August 12-13, the press service of the National Center for Human Rights said. The initiative to hold the conference was put forward by the President Shavkat Mirziyoyev at the 46th session of the UN Human Rights Council.

Uzbekistan and the Russian Federation are completing preparations to launch the Agroexpress pilot project, which provides for the swift delivery of agricultural products in a refrigerator train from Uzbekistan to Russia, said the Russian Deputy Minister of Economic Development Dmitry Volvach told.

A regular meeting of the faction of the People's Democratic Party of Uzbekistan took place in the Legislative Chamber of the Oliy Majlis on Monday.

The active phase of the drills with the participation of 2.5 thousand military personnel from Uzbekistan, Russia and Tajikistan started at the Harb-Maidon training ground, 20 km from the border with Afghanistan, the press service of the Central Military District of the Russian Federation reported.

Uzbekistan and Tajikistan will receive vaccines against coronavirus as part of Germany's promised supplies to developing countries, announced on August 9 in Berlin the deputy official representative of the Federal government Ulrike Demmer, Deutsche Welle said.

Cloudy weather with an air temperature at night of + 18, + 23 degrees Celsius will prevail on August 9 and during most of the week in Uzbekistan, Uzhydromet said in a report. In the daytime, the air will warm up to + 33, + 38 degrees, which is slightly over the norm for this period.

A directive letter to the heads of provincial health departments and the Sanitary-Epidemiological Welfare and Public Health Service on the temporary suspension of vaccination with the second and third doses of the Chinese-Uzbek vaccine ZF-UZ-VAC-2001 in Uzbekistan surfaced on social networks.

The first batch of humanitarian cargo worth 330 thousand dollars from the Global Jewish Assistance and Relief Network and the World Congress of Bukharian Jews (USA), arrived at the Tashkent International Airport, Dunyo news agency reported.

The National Anti-Coronavirus Commission discussed the easing lockdown restrictions for pubs and restaurants, after receiving many requests and calls from many businesses, the press service of the Ministry of Health said in the statement.

The plenum of the political council of the People's Democratic Party of Uzbekistan on Saturday nominated the deputy chief of the party, Maksuda Varisova, as a candidate for the presidential elections.