The Government of Uzbekistan by its June 5 resolution has approved the Development Strategy for the Information and Communication Technologies of the State Tax Committee, the press service of the Committee said.

The rail track laying began on the Tashkent’s Sergeli metro line, Uzbekistan Railways reported. The line is scheduled to be commissioned in September this year.

On June 8, President Shavkat Mirziyoyev chaired a regular meeting on the progress of reforms in the field of information technology and the digital economy, the presidential press service said.

The chief of the State Authority for Sanitary and Epidemiological Well-being, Nurmat Otabekov, said that the situation with the coronavirus infection in Uzbekistan had been worsening lately.

Uzbekistan joined the Governing Council of the Asia-Pacific Technology Transfer Center. Uzbekistan was elected one of the members of the Council until 2023.

A car was found with a corpse chained to the steering wheel in a water canal of Khorezm province. Earlier on social networks surfaced information that a car was found in a Shovot canal, in which was found the body of a man chained to the steering wheel.

On June 5, the U.S. Embassy handed over essential reagents for COVID-19 testing to the Uzbekistan’s Agency of Sanitary and Epidemiological Wellbeing (ASEW) as part of the United States’ assistance to Uzbekistan to combat COVID-19.

The Deputy Foreign Minister Sherzod Asadov held talks in a video-conference format with the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Finland, Marija Elina Liivala on Friday.

The number of confirmed coronavirus cases in Uzbekistan has reached 4302, the Ministry of Health said. On Sunday, 208 people were tested positive for coronavirus, the highest daily rise in cases (the previous record was April 6 - 115 new cases).

The Dustlik-Kuylyuk metro line, the Phase I of the Tashkent ring metro line, was completed, the Tashkent mayor’s office said in a statement.

According to the chair of the Tourism Develoment Committee Aziz Abdukhakimov, the government of Uzbekistan was gradually preparing to resume international flights.

Before the coronavirus pandemic, the number of unemployed in Uzbekistan was about 1.35 million, but now it has reached almost 2 million people, the Minister of Employment and Labor Relations, Nozim Khusanov said at a regular session of the international press club on June 7 dedicated to the development of the Ferghana province.

Public transport on urban and suburban routes will be allowed starting from June 8 in the Yellow and Green lockdown areas. This decision was made by the Special Republican Commission for the Control of Coronavirus.

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.

Canada will provide 250 thousand Canadian dollars (185 thousand US dollars) to combat coronavirus infection in Uzbekistan, the press service of the Uzbek Foreign Ministry said.

Photos of hens, which were distributed to workers of Almalyk Mining and Metallurgical Plant were posted on social networks.

Lockdown restrictions and rules in force in all regions of Uzbekistan have been revised to take into account the resumption of a number of activities, the press service of the Ministry of Health reported, citing a decision of the Special Republican Commission.

Starting July 1, the border guard troops of the State Security Service of Uzbekistan (SSS BG) will receive preliminary information about passengers of foreign airlines flying to Uzbekistan, the State Tourism Development Committee said in a statement.

From June 15, a number of activities shall be allowed depending on the lockdown-level, the press service of the Ministry of Health reported referring to the decision of the Special Republican Commission.

As of 11 PM, June 3 in Uzbekistan, the number of confirmed coronavirus cases stands at 3,843 (+28), the Health Ministry said in a statement.