On March 25, 2021, an online meeting was held between Alisher Maqsudov, Chairman of the State Committee for Ecology and Environmental Protection, and Frank Reisberman, Director of The Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI).

From April 1, Russia will resume flights with six countries: Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Germany, Venezuela, Syria and Sri Lanka, the press service of the Russian government said following a meeting of the operational anti-coronavirus headquarters.

1 million doses of ZF-UZ-VAC2001 vaccine will be delivered to Uzbekistan from China on March 26-27. “As a doctor, I can say that we have high hopes for the Uzbek-Chinese vaccine ZF-UZ-VAC2001,” Doniyor Mirazimov, director of the Specialized Infectious Diseases Hospital No. 2 of Zangiota District, Tashkent province told Kun.uz.

Today, the Kyrgyz Prime Minister Ulugbek Maripov arrived in Tashkent, UzA said. Ulugbek Maripov will attend the next meeting of the intergovernmental joint commission on bilateral cooperation between Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan, which will be held on March 25-26.

Today the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) jointly with the Ministry of Health of Uzbekistan, World Health Organization, International Press Club, and affected communities commemorated World Tuberculosis Day in Uzbekistan.

The State-Owned Assets Management Agency decided to stop the practice of listing government stakes exclusively through one broker, thereby ending the monopoly.

At a meeting today chaired by Shavkat Mirziyoyev, the leader introduced the new deputy head of administration/ the spokesman to the President, Sherzod Asadov, with the appointment order signed today.

The President’s draft Measures to improve the use of space technology in the economy Decree has been posted for public input.

Mass vaccination against coronavirus will begin on April 1 in Uzbekistan, the Deputy Head of the Sanitary-Epidemiological Welfare and Public Health Authority Nurmat Atabekov told the Sevimli TV channel.

On March 23, the President Shavkat Mirziyoyev signed the Additional measures to further facilitate for individuals and business entities when using government services, and to reduce bureaucratic barriers in this area Decree.

The Special National Anti-Coronavirus Commission announced a number of lockdown restrictions to prevent worsening of epidemiological situation in the country due to the recent increase in cases of COVID-19 in Tashkent and the Tashkent provinces, the press service of the Ministry of Health said.

Today, the President Shavkat Mirziyoyev hosted his new international consultants Alfred Gusenbauer, Alexander Kwasniewski and Stefan Fule, the presidential press service said.

Recently, a footage surfaced on social networks in which women in some underwear were cooking sumalak, the traditional Navruz holiday specialty.

On March 17, in Warsaw, the Deputy Foreign Minister Sherzod Asadov met with the Director of the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE/ODIHR) Matteo Mecacci.

The Ministry of Public Education, in partnership with the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), is developing student textbooks’ scopes and sequences for schools in Uzbekistan. Grade level scopes and sequences are based on standards and are very detailed road maps that lay out exactly what should be covered lesson by lesson in a student textbook and the corresponding teacher guide.

Special units of the Armed Forces of Uzbekistan and Turkey launched special tactical drills on March 22 at the Termez training ground in the South-Western Special Military District, the Defense Ministry said.

Uzbekistan ranked 42th, the highest among the ex-USSR countries in the World Happiness Report 2021, published by the Sustainable Development Solutions Network, an initiative of the United Nations.

The President Shavkat Mirziyoyev signed the Pardoning a group of persons serving a sentence who sincerely repented of their deeds and firmly embarked on the path of correction" on the eve of the national holiday Navruz Decree, with various pardon measures applied in relation 140 citizens on the occasion of the Navruz Holiday.

“Water is more than just a resource,” says Kakhramon Djumaboev, a researcher at the Central Asian Regional Representative office of the International Water Management Institute (IWMI) in Tashkent. “Think of water as life; it is everyone’s responsibility to save it. In a country like Uzbekistan with scarce water resources, every drop of the water should count.” 

The famous children's writer Khudoyberdi Tukhtaboev died at the age of 88, the Writers’ Union said. Khudoyberdi Tukhtaboev was born on December 17, 1932 in Katta Tagob village, Fergana province. He became an orphan early, and was brought up by his grandfather and grandmother.