Shortly, one governor and one minister will be dismissed from office, Shavkat Mirziyoyev said at a government meeting on January 27. However, he did not elaborated on who exeactly will be sacked.

Online summit between the President of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev and the President of the Republic of Korea Moon Jae-in will take place on January 28, the Uzbek leader’s press service said.

In January–December 2020, the average monthly salary before tax of employees of legal entities, excluding small and agriculture businesses, topped 2.6 million soums, US$ 250 increasing by 14.8% to the last year, the Statistics Committee said in a report.

Uzbeks are offered jobs in Russian companies. Drivers, crane operators, fitters, electricians, bulldozer drivers, cooks are especially in demand.

The State-Owned Assets Management Agency (SOAMA) responded to the Anti-Corruption Agency's demand to suspend the privatization process of Coca-Cola Ichimligi Uzbekiston, Ltd.

The Minister of Labor Nozim Husanov hosted the visiting Saudi Minister of Investment Khalid al-Falih and exchanged views with on a number of issues.

The government, by its January 23 resolution, approved the Regulation on the Chegara Posbonlari (Frontier Guards) Assistance Units to Border Troops of the State Security Service, the Ministry of Justice said.

The Minister of Energy Alisher Sultanov on January 24 held talks with the Minister of Investment of Saudi Arabia Khaled Al-Falih, the Uzbek Ministry of Energy said.

On January 14, President Shavkat Mirziyoyev signed a law amending the Personal Data Law. The Law was supplemented with article 27−1 “Special conditions for processing personal data of citizens of the Republic of Uzbekistan. It reads:

Today, on January 26, the republican anti-coronavirus commission issued a new decision. The decision notes that due to the stabilization of the situation with the coronavirus pandemic, the lockdown restrictions have been gradually lifted in Uzbekistan since November 2020.

Online talks on Uzbekistan's accession to the Airports Council International took place in late 2020. It was attended by Chairman of the Board of Uzbekistan Airports Ravshan Ismoilov and ACI Director General Stefano Baronsi.

The President Shavkat Mirziyoyev today hosted the Saudi Arabian delegation led by the Minister of Investment Khalid al-Falih, the presidential press service said.

Google Cloud has been registered as a taxpayer in Uzbekistan, the Tax Committee said. Google Cloud is a suite of cloud services and includes the Google Cloud Platform public cloud infrastructure, as well as Google Workspace (formerly G Suite), enterprise versions of Android and Chrome OS, and application programming interfaces (APIs) for machine learning and enterprise mapping services.

The Deputy Prime Minister/Minister of Investments and Foreign Trade of Uzbekistan Sardor Umurzakov held online talks the with the Deputy Prime Minister/Minister of Economy and Finance of the Republic of Korea Hong Nam-ki, the Uzbek Ministry of Investments and Foreign Trade said.

The date of the Uzbekistan elections is proposed to be moved from December to October. The draft bill amending the Constitution was discussed by factions of political parties in the Legislative Chamber, the press service of the Chamber and the Central Election Commission said.

Demolition of an unfinished six-story residential building part of which collapsed in early January has begun in Jizzakh city. According to the Ministry of Construction, the demolition is carried out at the expense of the business owner who built the building.

The presidential press service posted a special report on the trip of President Shavkat Mirziyoyev to the Bukhara province.

On January 24, simultaneously in Tashkent city and the Syrdarya province were held the ceremonies to launch of the 1,500 MW capacity Syrdarya thermal power plant project, the Ministry of Energy said. The project will be implemented jointly with ACWA Power of Saudi Arabia.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) launched a five-day Field Epidemiological Frontline Training Program (FETP) for 20 Uzbek epidemiologists from the Services for Sanitary and Epidemiological Well-being (SSEW) and 10 mentors from the Tashkent Medical Academy. The CDC FETP is a service-based training program for public health workers at all levels of the public health system, to improve the ability of health workers to conduct epidemiological investigations and respond to disease outbreaks.  

The authorities allowed the pegging of prices to foreign currencies and conventional units, according to the amendments of January 22to the Currency Regulation Law.