Today, Uzbekistan received the delivery of 2,257,600 doses of the Moderna vaccine under the global Covax program, the Ministry of Health reported.

Uzbekistan Airways announced that “due to the spike in demand” it is launching more Tashkent-Moscow and Tashkent-St. Petersburg flights.

The English Speaking Nation: Secondary Teacher Training (ESN:STT) program, launched in November 2019, by the U.S. Embassy in Tashkent and the Uzbekistan Ministry of Public Education began the teacher to teacher professional development and training cascade phase of the program on Friday, March 4th.

Starting from March 7, all devices of partner banks, including POS-terminals, ATMs and infokiosks, resumed servicing Mir cards.

Flights between Uzbekistan and Russia will be operated as per the schedule, Uzbekistan Airways said. "In recent days, there have been questions about the suspension of flights between Uzbekistan and Russia. We would like to inform you that the flights between Uzbekistan and Russia will be operated without interruptions as per the schedule.

The total score of Uzbeks evacuated from Ukraine through Poland reached 4,359 as of the morning of March 7, Yusup Kabulzhanov, spokesman to the Uzbek Foreign Ministry, said.

68 coronavirus cases were officially confirmed in Uzbekistan on March 6, being the lowest figure since January 4, the Ministry of Health said. 33 cases were detected in Tashkent city, 14 cases were confirmed in Tashkent province.

President Shavkat Mirziyoyev signed Organization of military-patriotic movement of children and adolescents Vatan Tayanchi (Support of the Motherland”) Decree.

The red carpet spread out for President Shavkat Mirziyoyev in the Pakistani capital this week not only reflected on the depth of cultural and historic roots between the two countries but it also demonstrated the will of the people of Central Asia and South Asia to overcome all hurdles hampering the path of their mutual connectivity.

On March 1, Tashkent city mayor Jakhongir Artykkhodjaev met with the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Turkiye to Uzbekistan Olgan Bekar.

Russian Smartavia and iFly airlines temporarily suspended flights to Uzbekistan, the Civil Aviation Agency said in a statement.

As of March 3, the unified national processing center - Uzcard has temporarily suspended accepting cards of the Russian payment system Mir, Uzcard said in a statement.

Turkish Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Uzbekistan Olgan Bekar said that President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan will visit Uzbekistan in the coming days, with one of the main items of bilateral agenda being the raising of the two-way trade to $ 10 billion.

Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan said on Thursday that Islamabad and Tashkent are working to repair the 500-year old ties that the South Asia region had with Uzbekistan.

84 coronavirus cases were officially confirmed in Uzbekistan on March 3, being the lowest figure since January 4, the Ministry of Health said. 38 cases were detected in Tashkent city, 14 cases were confirmed in Tashkent province.

The total number of Uzbeks evacuated from Ukraine via Poland on 11 flights by March 4 has reached 2,579 people, announced the official representative of the Foreign Ministry Yusup Kabulzhanov.

President Shavkat Mirziyoyev today spoke to the President of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev over the telephone, the presidential press service said.

In Uzbekistan, since August 2021, 45.6 thousand workers, who refused to be vaccinated against coronavirus, have been suspended from work. This was announced on February 23 by the head of the Service for Sanitary and Epidemiological Welfare and Public Health Bakhodir Yusupaliyev.

91 coronavirus cases were officially confirmed in Uzbekistan on March 2, being the lowest figure since January 4, the Ministry of Health said. 51 cases were detected in Tashkent city, 9 cases were confirmed in Tashkent province.

Recently, story surfaced in social networks about the alleged recruitment of the Uzbek military into the army units of foreign states. In particular, on February 25, a video was posted on social networks showing an Uzbek-speaking driver driving a truck with Russian troops in the Donbass.