The Ministry of Health reported of a record daily 851 people diagnosed with coronavirus and 398 with pneumonia in Uzbekistan yesterday. "As of August 17, 2021, the number of registered coronavirus infections in Uzbekistan stands at 145,615 (+851)," the report said.

The President Shavkat Mirziyoyev held a telephone conversation with the German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier on August 17, the presidential press service said.

The Taliban held their first official news conference in Kabul on Tuesday since the shock seizure of the city, declaring they wanted peaceful relations with other countries and would respect the rights of women within the framework of Islamic law.

Media reports about the alleged presence in Uzbekistan of some public figures and leaders of ethnic groups of Afghanistan do not correspond to reality, Dunyo news agency, which is owned by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Uzbekistan, said in a statement.

Uzbekistan Airways resumed the Tashkent to London regular flight, the company said in a statement. Reportedly, starting from August 17, Uzbekistan Airways has resumed the regular Tashkent to London flight.

On August 17, the President Shavkat Mirziyoyev signed a decree increasing salaries, pensions, student allowances and benefits by an average of 10% from September 1.

The sambo fighter Elbek Rakhimov was killed in Kashkadarya province, which was confirmed by the press service of the General Prosecutor's Office.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued a statement on Afghanistan, saying that "Uzbekistan is closely following the development of the situation" in Afghanistan.

Debt issued by Uzbekistan is weakening, as emerging market investors braced themselves for the fallout from the crisis in Afghanistan.

In February, the head of state signed the Measures for the further development of domestic and pilgrim tourism in the Republic of Uzbekistan Decree which set additional non-business days for the year 2021.

The President Shavkat Mirziyoyev held a telephone conversation with the Russian President Vladimir Putin Sunday, the presidential press service reported.

The Yangi Uzbekiston (New Uzbekistan) newspaper will publish an interview with the President Shavkat Mirziyoyev on August 17, said the presidential spokesman Sherzod Asadov at a briefing on Monday.

Russia does not see threats from the Taliban for the Central Asian states, stated the special representative of the President of the Russian Federation for Afghanistan Zamir Kabulov on the First Channel.

Afghan President Ashraf Ghani fled the country with four vehicles and a helicopter full of cash, the Russian embassy in Kabul said Monday.

22 military aircraft and 24 helicopters of Afghanistan, carrying 585 Afghan servicemen, illegally crossed the airspace of Uzbekistan on August 14-15. The aircrafts were forcibly landed at the Termez airport, the General Prosecutor's Office of Uzbekistan said on Monday.

Two of Afghanistan's most notorious regional strongmen fled on Saturday as the northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif fell to the Taliban and security forces abandoned the city in a headlong rush up the highway to the safety of neighbouring Uzbekistan.

Last week, Artel Electronics LLC (Artel) was delighted to welcome the Uzbek Olympic team to an event in Tashkent to thank the athletes for their achievements. In 2021, Uzbekistan’s Olympians achieved three gold medals and two bronzes, finishing higher up the medal table than any other country in Central Asia.

On August 13, 2021, JICA Uzbekistan Office, Ministry of Public Education, Scientific Research Institute for Studying the Problems and Determining the Prospects of Public Education named after A. Avloni and KEI Advanced, Inc. (Japan) signed Minutes of Meeting on JICA`s “SDGs Business Verification Survey with the Private Sector for the Introduction of a Japanese-style Academic Achievement Test Model in Uzbekistan”.  

The Deputy Minister of Energy Sherzod Khodjaev attended the first organized meeting of the energy ministers of the member states of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO).

The President Shavkat Mirziyoyev invited the President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov to pay an official visit to Uzbekistan at any convenient time.