The Ministry of Health reported of a record daily 585 people diagnosed with coronavirus and 462 with pneumonia in Uzbekistan yesterday. "As of July 18, 2021, the number of registered coronavirus infections in Uzbekistan stands at 118,881 (+501)," the report said.

Police arrested a university student from Uzbekistan on Sunday on suspicion of raping a Japanese woman while the two were working part time at the National Stadium for the upcoming Tokyo Olympics.

The Tashkent’s Almazar district mayor Abdumajid Mullajanov, has died at the age of 51 from myocardial infarction, the Tashkent mayor’s office said.

On July 17, the special representative of the President for Afghanistan, Ismatulla Irgashev, met with the Special Envoy of the Federal Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Germany for Eastern Europe, the Caucasus and Central Asia Matthias Lüttenberg.

On Monday, July 19, the vice-president of the Uzbekistan MMA, the mixed martial arts fighter Murod Khanturaev died in a car accident in Bostanlyk district of Tashkent province, the Tashkent province Police Department said.

Uzbekistan is introducing compulsory vaccination against coronavirus for a number of categories of citizens over 18 years old, the Ministry of Health said in a statement.

The anti-coronavirus commission took a decision restricting Uzbekistan restaurants to operate only in open air from July 20.

Shavkat Mirziyoyev hosted Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall, the Homeland Security Adviser to the U.S. President Joe Biden, the presidential press service said.

The Ministry of Health reported of a record daily 501 people diagnosed with coronavirus and 416 with pneumonia in Uzbekistan yesterday. "As of July 16, 2021, the number of registered coronavirus infections in Uzbekistan stands at 118,881 (+501)," the report said.

The Afghan President Ashraf Ghani spoke about the situation in his home country at the conference on Central and South Asia in Tashkent on July 16.

The High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Vice-President of the European Commission Josep Borrell, speaking at an international conference on the interconnectivity of the Central and South Asia on July 16 in Tashkent, touched upon the situation in Afghanistan.

The consultative meeting of the heads of state of Central Asia will take place on August 6 in the Avaza National Tourist Zone in Turkmenistan.

50,000 doses of AstraZeneca vaccine were delivered to Uzbekistan from Azerbaijan, the UNICEF office in the country reported.

The President Shavkat Mirziyoyev and the Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan signed a Joint Declaration on the establishment of a strategic partnership ties between Uzbekistan and Pakistan.

The International Conference “Central and South Asia: Regional Interconnectedness. Challenges and Opportunities” kicked off today in Tashkent.

Yesterday in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, the United States, Afghanistan and Pakistan decided to create a new quadripartite consultation platform to support the Afghan peace process and post-conflict settlement, the Uzbek Foreign Ministry said.

The inauguration ceremony of the International Central Asia Institute took place in Tashkent Thursday, the press service of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said.

The Ministry of Health reported of 493 people being diagnosed with coronavirus and 367 with pneumonia in Uzbekistan yesterday. "As of July 14, 2021, the number of registered coronavirus infections in Uzbekistan stands at 117,902 (+493)," the report said.

The joint expert group from among the experts of the Institute for Forecasting and Macroeconomic Research and Uzbekiston Railways assessed the importance of the International Conference: "Central and South Asia: regional interconnectivity. Challenges and Opportunities”, which will be held on July 15-16, 2021 in Tashkent.

The Prime Minister of Pakistan Imran Khan and the Afghan President Ashraf Ghani today landed in Tashkent to attend the conference “Central and South Asia: Regional Interconnectivity. Threats and Opportunities”, Dunyo reported.