On July 28, the President signed a new edition of the Courts Law. The Law was published in Xalq So’zi with immediate effect on Thursday.

Today, the United States delivered more than 3,000,000 doses of the Moderna vaccine to Uzbekistan through COVAX, the international platform to deliver safe and effective COVID-19 vaccines equitably around the world.  This is the first time Uzbekistan has received the U.S. manufactured Moderna, two-dose vaccine, administered 28 days apart.

During the visit of President Shavkat Mirziyoyev to Almalyk, it was unveiled that 1.2 million doses of Pfizer vaccine would be delivered to Uzbekistan.

The process of privatization of state-owned assets has been stepped up in Uzbekistan. 1.1 trillion soums, or US$ 105 million worth of state-owned assets were sold in H1 of 2021. While, the state made only US$ 150 million from privatization in the previous four years, said Akmalkhon Ortikov, director of the State-Owned Asset Management Agency (SAMA), in an interview to bne IntelliNews.

Burger King, the multinational chain of fast food restaurants, is entering the Uzbek market. Several media reports said. Reportedly, Burger King Uzbekistan will be a franchise, with franchiser stationed in Moscow. Burgerhouse LLC, which was registered in Tashkent on June 24 with an authorized capital of 1 billion soums, started hiring. The company confirmed that negotiations were underway to sign a license agreement.

A government delegation led by the Foreign Minister Abdulaziz Kamilov will pay a working visit to the Republic of Korea from July 29 to August 2, 2021.

In 6 months of 2021, 104 minors died in traffic accidents, the Senate said in a statement today. According to the Senate, the today's plenary meeting focused on the traffic accidents in the country.

The laboratories of Uzbekistan have joined the mobile application "Traveling without COVID-19", the developer of the service, the Digital Initiatives Fund of the Eurasian Development Bank, said.

The Ministry of Health reported of a record daily 843 people diagnosed with coronavirus and 521 with pneumonia in Uzbekistan yesterday. "As of July 27, 2021, the number of registered coronavirus infections in Uzbekistan stands at 126,627 (+843)," the report said.

Today, the Ministry of Preschool Education  signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the U.S.-based Mercy Corps and the Sanitary-Epidemiological Welfare and Public Health Service under the Ministry of Health to cooperate on the McGovern-Dole International Food for Education and Child Nutrition Program in Uzbekistan funded by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA).

The Uzbek Ambassador to the United States, Javlon Vakhabov, presented copies of his credentials to Nester Forster, Ambassador of Brazil to the United States, to be appointed ambassador to Brazil with residence in Washington, Dunyo news agency reported.

The Ministry of Health reported of a record daily 789 people diagnosed with coronavirus and 521 with pneumonia in Uzbekistan yesterday. "As of July 26, 2021, the number of registered coronavirus infections in Uzbekistan stands at 125,784 (+789)," the report said.

The Senate of Uzbekistan will convene for the seventeenth plenary session on Monday (July 30), the press service of the Senate said in a statement. 

3 million doses of Moderna vaccines will be delivered to Uzbekistan from the United States on July 29 on a special flight, Dunyo news agency reported.

In January–June 2021, the average monthly salary before tax of employees of legal entities, excluding small and agriculture businesses, topped 2.971 million soums, or US$ 280 increasing by 16.0% to the last year, the Statistics Committee said in a report.

A production unit for the Russian Sputnik V vaccine is expected to be launched in Uzbekistan in the near future, stated the Deputy Secretary of the Security Council of Russia Rashid Nurgaliev.

Sherzod Asadov, the spokesman to the president at today’s press briefing, announced the events to be attended by the head of state this week.

The State Inspectorate for Control Over Informatization and Telecommunications (Uzkomnazorat) restricted access to the Chinese social network WeChat after earlier blocking TikTok, Twitter, VKontakte and the Skype messenger due to the failure to store and process personal data of Uzbek citizens within Uzbekistan.

The Yuksalish nationwide movement conducted another survey to determine the major initiatives and reforms of the President Shavkat Mirziyoyev.

The Ministry of Health reported of a record daily 705 people diagnosed with coronavirus and 482 with pneumonia in Uzbekistan yesterday. "As of July 25, 2021, the number of registered coronavirus infections in Uzbekistan stands at 124,995 (+705)," the report said.