Talat Valiev has been appointed Deputy Secretary of the Security Council under the President, Nigokh Telegram channel, close to the President Administration said.

778 coronavirus cases were officially confirmed in Uzbekistan on February 8, the Ministry of Health said. 375 cases were detected in Tashkent city, 175 cases were confirmed in Tashkent province, 45 - in Surkhandarya province, 37 - in Samarkand province.

The first long-haul train service was completed in Uzbekistan. The length of the route, passing through almost the entire country, was about 4 thousand kilometers.

Uzbekistan plans to raise the minimum age for possession of civilian hunting guns and ammunition, stated the MP of the Legislative Chamber Rasul Kusherbayev.

The Hydrometeorological Service Center announced the weather forecast for tomorrow, February 10. In Tashkent city, the weather will be changeable, with no precipitation expected.

The caretaker government of Afghanistan must keep its promises for recognition, Uzbek Foreign Minister Abdulaziz Kamilov said. “It is clear that a completely new reality has emerged in Afghanistan today. There are, of course, different approaches regarding the recognition of the Afghan caretaker government. We believe that the issue of government recognition is a two-way street. That is, it is necessary to move forward: the caretaker government must keep those many promises. These are practically the same conditions and demands that the international community is putting,” he said.

On the Safe Internet Day, which is marked around the world on February 8, UNICEF and the Cybersecurity Center of the Ministry of Internal Affairs began cooperation to reduce harm and protect children from violence online, the office of the UN Children's Fund in Uzbekistan said.

773 coronavirus cases were officially confirmed in Uzbekistan on February 7, the Ministry of Health said. 445 cases were detected in Tashkent city, 105 cases were confirmed in Tashkent province, 40 - in Samarkand province, 34 - in Fergana province.

On February 5, the blogger Akida Khanum reported that land plots under the Chor-Bakr memorial complex, 5 km from Bukhara, were sold at an auction to six business entities. According to her, each of them bought 18 sqm of land.

The Russian Ministry of Digital Development has created an office of digital attachés within Russian trade missions abroad, RBC reports. The main task of this office will be to promote Russian IT products abroad.

On February 7, Minister of Energy Alisher Sultanov held talks with a delegation of Volkswagen Group Rus LLC, headed by General Director Stefan Mecha in Tashkent, the Ministry of Energy said in a statement.

On February 8-12, 2022, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)-funded Central Asia Media Program is hosting its third annual innovative seminar on media and digital literacy, MediaCAMP Eduthon 2022. The online event is gathering university professors, schoolteachers, media trainers, and experts in the field of media and digital literacy from Central Asia and beyond to promote media literacy in the region. Over the course of five days, 30 participants from Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan will gain new skills and be mentored as they develop projects promoting media literacy.

President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenka said that Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan could join the union state of Russia and Belarus. According to him, most of the former Soviet republics could join the union, formed in 1999 by Moscow and Minsk. Lukashenka also told what reasons would contribute to the union of states.

A President draft Ratification of an international treaty decree was published. The treaty between the Government of Uzbekistan and the Government of Kazakhstan on joint customs control over the transportation of energy resources across the Uzbek-Kazakh customs border through pipelines and power lines, signed on December 6, 2021 in Nur-Sultan, will be approved.

Man in Khorezm was sentenced to 3 years of imprisonment for insulting the president while being drunk. According to human rights activist Abdurahmon Tashanov, the man, 31, was a member of the Bloggers' Union, a group on Telegram, which posted live video footage insulting and defaming former and current presidents of Uzbekistan.

At a press conference the Minister of Justice, Ruslanbek Davletov said that a number of new anti-corruption bills had been developed. Reportedly one of such drafts is the Unified State Register of Ultimate Beneficiaries bill.

On February 7, the weather in Uzbekistan will be determined by a periphery of an anticyclone, the Uzhydromet said. There is a tiny likelihood of precipitation in the form of rain and snow. The temperature will be +2…+7 degrees.

Minister of Justice Ruslanbek Davletov at the Feb 4 plenary session of the Senate presented an analysis of data from the Business Indicator system, which allows assessing the ease of doing business in the provinces of Uzbekistan.

Uzbekistan nationals issued the largest number of Russia work permits in 2021, the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs said in a report on Friday.

In the Kashkadarya province,  the deputy mayor of the Mirishkor district in charge of support of the mahalla and family, Umid Yakhshiev was detained while receiving 50 thousand dollars in a bribe, announced the spokesman to the General Prosecutor's Office Khayot Shamsutdinov.