On March 11, 2021, the Board of the Central Bank decided to keep the interest rate at 14% per annum, the Central Bank said in a statement.

In line with the President’s Measures for gradual modernization of power units at the Syrdarya thermal power plant Decree, the ninth and tenth power units of Syrdarya TPP will be modernized this year by the Russian company Power Machines.

Authorities could launch COVID-2019 vaccination certificates, said the Deputy Minister of Health/Head of the Sanitary and Epidemiological Welfare and Public Health Service, Bakhodir Yusupaliev at a press conference on Wednesday.

According to him, measures are being taken to purchase vaccines and launch the mass vaccination.

The creation of an e-register of persons for priority vaccination is ongoing. Those who received the vaccination will be registered on the Emlash.uz website.

On March 12, the President Shavkat Mirziyoyev will hold an online Summit with the Chancellor of Germany Angela Merkel, the presidential press service said in a statement.

Uzbekistan will accept the delivery of the first batch of AstraZeneca vaccines as part of the COVAX initiative between March 15-20, said the Deputy Minister of Health/Head of the Sanitary and Epidemiological Welfare and Public Health Service, Bakhodir Yusupaliev at a press conference on Wednesday.

The ceremony of handing over of a mobile diagnostic and treatment clinic to the Ministry of Health of Uzbekistan from the Russian government took place on March 10 in Tashkent.

On March 9, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) handed over to the Ministry of Health of Uzbekistan more than 50 thousand copies of a manual and a pocket guide on the universal progressive model of patronage (home visiting).

Uzbekistan plans to purchase more than a million doses of ZF-UZ-VAC 2001 vaccine jointly developed in China, the Minister of Innovative Development, Ibrohim Abdurakhmonov told XinhuaNet.

On March 9, the Deputy PM/Minister of Investment and Foreign Trade Sardor Umurzakov met with Secretary General of the Islamic Development Bank (IDB) Ghassan Al-Baba, the Ministry said.

On March 9, President Shavkat Mirziyoyev hosted the Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu, and discussed topical issues of the Uzbek-Turkish multifaceted relations.

On March 10, the Foreign Minister Abdulaziz Kamilov will pay a working visit to Pakistan, the Foreign Ministry said. Reportedly, he will held talks on further deepening cooperation between Uzbekistan and Pakistan, with bilateral relations set to be discussed in the context of regional ties.

The meeting of the foreign ministers of Uzbekistan Abdulaziz Kamilov and Turkey Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu, as well as the second meeting of the Strategic Planning Group chaired by the foreign ministers of the two countries, were held in Tashkent on March 9, the Uzbek Foreign Ministry reported.

On March 7, the Consulate General of Turkey opened in Samarkand, the provincial governor’s office said. The opening ceremony was attended by Deputy PM Aziz Abdukhakimov, Foreign Minister Abdulaziz Kamilov, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu, Samarkand province governor Erkinjon Turdimov.

A Chinese investor will invest US$ 2.5 million for a recreation area project at the “Tashkent Sea” (Tuyaboguz reservoir), the press service of the Tashkent province governor’s office said.

The online international forum ‘Building Forward Better: A COVID-19 Green Recovery for Uzbekistan’ took place in Tashkent on 3-4 March, 2021.

On March 5, the Foreign Minister Abdulaziz Kamilov hosted the newly appointed head of the European Union Delegation, Ambassador Charlotte Adrian, the Foreign Ministry said.

Oleg Sergeevich Malginov has been appointed the new Russian Ambassador to Uzbekistan. The decree of the President of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin, dated March 5, was published on the official Internet portal of legal information.

On March 4 and 5, online media outlets and bloggers reported that the Uzbek President’s son-in-law, Otabek Umarov, is being treated in South Korea. The report confirms that he was injured in a motorcycle accident on the evening of February 13 on Mustakilliq Avenue near the Pushkin metro station.

Negotiations between experts of the Uzbekistan Football Association (UFA) and FIFA regarding the use of the VAR system during the matches of the 2021 season in Uzbekistan league have yielded positive results, the UFA reported.

On March 4, President Shavkat Mirziyoyev signed a decree approving the Civil Society Development Concept for 2021-2025.