On April 5, the Foreign Minister of Iran Muhammad Javad Zarif will visit Uzbekistan, the Uzbek Foreign Ministry said in a statement.

Samarkand will become a city with population of over 1 million, announced the Samarkand province governor Erkinjon Turdimov on March 31 at a meeting with young people.

The proposal to abolish in Uzbekistan the Administrative liability for not carrying a driver's license, published on the Mening Fikrim petitions portal, received more than 13 thousand votes.

On April 1, the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs issued a statement in which it accused the Polish journalist Agnieszka Pikulicka of biased coverage of events around the blogger Miraziz Bazarov, who was beaten on Sunday, and coverage on Twitter of "events that are not really happening."

On April 1, Tashkent hosted a groundbreaking ceremony for the wind farm project (WPP) in the Zarafshan district of Navoi province from the Emirati company Masdar, the Ministry of Energy said.

A legal framework regulating human organ transplantation will be developed in Uzbekistan, announced the President Shavkat Mirziyoyev at a healthcare sector government meeting on April 1.

The government resolution approved the strategy for management and reform of enterprises in which the state owns a stake and the targets for its implementation in 2021–2025.

At the enlarged meeting of the Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs, Foreign Economic Relations, Foreign Investments and Tourism, the head of the diplomatic mission of Uzbekistan in the United States Javlon Vahobov briefed on the work done and the future plans.

Uzbekistan has begun developing its own vaccine against coronavirus, announced the Minister of Health Abdukhakim Khodjiboev.

As part of the COVAX Initiative, Uzbekistan will get another 2 million doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine in May-June, and will purchase 3.5 million doses of the Chinese-Uzbek vaccine ZF-UZ-VAC2001 in April-June, the Minister of Health of the Republic Abdukhakim Khadzhibaev.

On March 31, President Shavkat Mirziyoyev addressed the informal online summit of the Cooperation Council of Turkic-speaking States, the presidential press service said.

Mass vaccination against coronavirus began in Uzbekistan today on April 1. As reported earlier, at the first stage, senior citizens aged over 65 years and medical workers at risk of infection with COVID-19 will the first to be vaccinated.

A public call not to abide by or violate laws will be punishable by a fine, according to the amendment to the Code of Administrative Liability (CoAL) signed by Shavkat Mirziyoyev. The document was passed by the Legislative Chamber on March 4 and approved by the Senate on March 12.

On March 29, the President signed the Measures to develop public-private partnerships in the airport management Decree.

Uzbekistan's Criminal Code has been supplemented with sanctions for public calling for riots and violence against citizens. The Law on this was signed on March 20 by President Shavkat Mirziyoyev.

Historical documents until to 1917, in particular those belonging to the Office of the Governor-General of Turkestan, have been declassified.

Today, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) launched its new five-year water and environment activity in Uzbekistan, “USAID Regional Water and Vulnerable Environment.” The program covers the five countries of Central Asia and Afghanistan and will strengthen regional cooperation on the management of shared water resources in the Syr Darya and Amu Darya river basins.

The UN Resident Coordinator in Uzbekistan Helena Fraser issued a statement on March 30 regarding the anti-LGBT protes and related violence in Tashkent.

An amendment has been inserted to the Criminal Code of Uzbekistan, establishing liability for public insult or defamation against the President of the country using telecommunication networks or the Internet. The Law on this was signed on March 30 by President Shavkat Mirziyoyev. The document was passed by the Legislative Chamber on March 4 and approved by the Senate on March 12.

The Informatization Law has been amended to harshen the requirements for website owners and bloggers to disseminate information on the Internet. The amendments were approved on March 30 by the President Shavkat Mirziyoyev. The document was passed by the Legislative Chamber on March 4 and approved by the Senate on March 12, 2021.