Uzbekistan launched the production of its own unmanned aerial vehicles - Lochin (transl. Falcon), the State Committee for the Defense Industry said.

On January 17, President Shavkat Mirziyoyev hosted the visiting Deputy Chairman of the Cabinet of Ministers of Turkmenistan Serdar Berdimuhamedov, the presidential press service said.

On January 13, 2022 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Romania to Uzbekistan H.E. Mr. Daniel Cristian Ciobanu visited the exhibition "Romania's Contribution to World Heritage", which opened at the National Library of Uzbekistan on the occasion of the Day of National Culture of Romania.

Plane of Uzbekistan Airways, operating Tashkent-Minsk flight, skidded out of the runway at Minsk National Airport. According to the Minsk airport, the incident occurred at about 11:45 a.m. during a heavy snowfall and blizzard.

310,050 doses of Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine were delivered to Uzbekistan on January 17. This is the second batch of the vaccine delivered in 2022 bringing the total vaccine count to 49,846,818 doses, the Ministry of Health said.

1,037 coronavirus cases were officially confirmed on January 16 in Uzbekistan. This is the highest rise since the start of the pandemic in March 2020. The previous peak was recorded on August 5, 2021 - 974 cases.

298.8 billion soums, or 27.6 million USD worth of over 139.4 thousand license plates were sold in 2021 on online auctions through the website of the UzEX - avtoraqam.uzex.uz. Sales of license plates increased by 40% in quantity and by 21% in value.

The number of confirmed coronavirus cases in Uzbekistan on January 15 increased again to reach 912, the Ministry of Health reported. A day earlier, 876 cases were confirmed.

Rutan, the drug developed by scientists of the Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry of the Academy of Sciences of Uzbekistan, was added to the protocol for treatment of coronavirus infection, the spokeswoman to the Ministry of Innovative Development Nazokat Abdukunduzova said.

On January 12, the U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Central Asia Rebecca Zimmerman, on behalf of Pentagon Chief Lloyd Austin and officials of the US defense department, congratulated all Uzbeks and military personnel on the 30th anniversary of the creation of the Armed Forces of Uzbekistan.

Uzbekistan employers must arrange vaccination of their workers by January 20. This request was made by the Ministry of Health on Friday.

On January 13, Foreign Minister Abdulaziz Kamilov hosted Ruslan Mirzaev, who on January 1 assumed the office of director of the executive committee of the regional anti-terrorist structure of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (RATS SCO) in Tashkent.

According to the State Statistics Committee, as of January 1, 2022, the number of foreign-invested enterprises registered in Uzbekistan topped 13.7 thousand, of which 13.3 thousand are operating.

The Uzbek authorities are introducing new restrictions for those entering the country to prevent the spread of the omicron strain, the Foreign Ministry said.

On January 12, President Shavkat Mirziyoyev signed the Hydrometeorological Activities Bill into Law. The Law outlines the basic principles of hydrometeorological activities, defines objects and subjects, specialized organizations in this area.

824 coronavirus cases were detected in Uzbekistan on Thursday, which is by 110 more than a day earlier (714), the Ministry of Health said in a statement.

At a meeting of the Security Council on Thursday, President Shavkat Mirziyoyev "voiced his opinion on the statements of some heads of states regarding Uzbekistan," the presidential spokesman Sherzod Asadov said.

On January 13, Shavkat Mirziyoyev held a telephone conversation with the Russian President Vladimir Putin, the presidential press service said.

714 coronavirus cases were detected in Uzbekistan on Wednesday, which is by 110 more than a day earlier (604), the Ministry of Health said in a statement.

Currently, only a certain category of citizens is required to get vaccinated against COVID-19 in Uzbekistan. The Deputy PM/Minister of Tourism and Sports Aziz Abdukhakimov chaired a meeting dedicated to measures aimed at ensuring sanitary and epidemiological well-being, in particular, vaccination.