Negotiations on the launch of the production unit for the Chinese-Uzbek vaccine against coronavirus, ZF-UZ-VAC-2001 in Uzbekistan were held on July 24 at the Ministry of Innovative Development.

On July 24, the President Shavkat Mirziyoyev held a telephone conversation with the Russian President Vladimir Putin, the presidential press service said.

The Ministry of Health reported of a record daily 738 people diagnosed with coronavirus and 462 with pneumonia in Uzbekistan yesterday. "As of July 22, 2021, the number of registered coronavirus infections in Uzbekistan stands at 122,786 (+738)," the report said.

The air temperature is expected to increase on July 24-26, due to the heat wave from the regions of Iran. The air temperature these days will be 4-6 degrees Celsius higher than the climatic norm, Uzhydromet said.

The president signed a decree on July 19 creating the Agency for Uzbekistan’s Strategic Development, the Ministry of Justice said.

In August, about 1,500 Uzbek and Russian servicemen will attend a joint drill at the Surkhandarya training ground, the Russian Defense Ministry.

The Central Election Commission (CEC) made this decision on Friday assigning the October 24 as the day of the presidential elections in Uzbekistan.

On July 20, another batch of 1 million doses of the Chinese-Uzbek ZF-UZ-VAC2001 vaccine was delivered to Uzbekistan from China, the Ministry of Health said.

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.