Today, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) donated 30 cutting-edge tuberculosis (TB) testing machines to the people of Uzbekistan. The equipment worth $381,000 was handed over by USAID Mission Director in Uzbekistan Mikaela Meredith to the Deputy Minister of Health Ulugbek Sabirov at the ceremony in the Republican Specialized Scientific and Practical Medical Center of Phthisiology and Pulmonology. 

Uzbekistan has reopened access to the social network TikTok, internet users said. TikTok was blocked in July by the state inspection authority Uzkomnazorat for "violation of legal requirements in the processing of personal data of Uzbek citizens." Simultaneously were blockedTwitter, VKontakte and the Skype messenger.

Pakistani PIA Airlines will launch regular flights to Uzbekistan, this was discussed at a meeting held at the Ministry of Transport with the participation of officials of the Embassy of Pakistan in Uzbekistan and the senior executives of the PIA.

The President of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev has accepted the invitation of the President of the Republic of Korea Moon Jae-in and will pay a state visit to South Korea on December 16-18, the presidential press service said.

The draft Code of Ethics and Conduct for Civil Servants, developed by the Ministry of Justice, has been posted for public input, Norma.uz reported.

The Foreign Ministry of Uzbekistan has published the text of the joint statement of Uzbekistan and the United States following the inaugural meeting of the Strategic Partnership Dialogue.

Uzbekistan Post yesterday announced a rebrand and a number of changes and improvements in the work of the mail service.At a presentation in Tashkent, the new brand name - UzPost and the slogan - "The Power of New Opportunities" were showcased. 

On December 14, the Foreign Minister Abdulaziz Kamilov hosted the Russian diplomats led by Deputy Foreign Minister Andrei Rudenko, the Uzbek Foreign Ministry said.

President Shavkat Mirziyoyev at a meeting on December 14 proposed to introduce Tax Free - the VAT refund to foreign citizens for purchased goods when leaving Uzbekistan in Tashkent, Samarkand and Bukhara, the presidential spokesman Sherzod Asadov said.

Uzbekistan ranked 82nd in the pandemics preparedness index released by the U.S.-based the Nuclear Threat Initiative and the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security at the Bloomberg School of Public Health, with research by Economist Impact, measured the capacities of 195 countries to prepare for epidemics and pandemics.

The State Industrial Safety Committee and the Department of Radiation and Nuclear Safety, which is part of it, at a press conference, announced the amount of radioactive waste accumulated in Uzbekistan during the development of uranium deposits during the Soviet times.

Today the UN Refugee Agency, UNHCR, trucked humanitarian goods from Termez, Uzbekistan, to Afghanistan. The delivery is part of UNHCR’s aid effort to Afghanistan and a massive operation to provide life-saving aid to the people of Afghanistan.

An auction for the site, where the military town No. 60 in the Chilanzar district used to be located, took place on the E-auksion trading platform.

The Deputy PM/Minister of Investment and Foreign Trade S. Umurzakov met with the U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asia Donald Lu.

The draft Approval of qualification requirements for personnel required for operation of nuclear power plants Resolution was posted for public input on Tuesday by UzAtom Agency.

Tashkent hosted the inaugural meeting of the Strategic Partnership Dialogue between Uzbekistan and the United States of America.

55% of Uzbek adults have been fully vaccinated against coronavirus as of December 11, the Ministry of Health said on Monday.

The international literary festival, Open Eurasian Literary Festival & Book Forum (OEBF), which this year marks its ten year anniversary, unites cultural and artistic figures, cultural and charitable organizations as well as art connoisseurs, allowing them to build cultural bridges between East and West. For ten years, creative people from 85 countries, including famous modern writers, have participated in it. OEBF has already been held in Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Thailand, Sweden, Belgium and the UK.

Eco House-Group, without a tender, received at least three government contracts for the construction of medical facilities. Their total cost is at least 403 billion soums. However, according to the Public Procurement Law, contracts worth over 6.8 billion soums cannot be transferred without a tender.

Most nationals who arrived in Russia for employment in the period from January to September of this year were from Uzbekistan (3,054,180), Tajikistan (1,597,481), Kyrgyzstan (623,465), Armenia (298,801 people) and Azerbaijan (185,752), the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs reported.