Agency for Cadastre will be set up under the State Tax Committee in place of the State Committee for Land Resources, Geodesy, Cartography and State Cadastre (SCLRGCSC). This is provided for by the Sep.7 presidential decree on radical improvement of the system for keeping records of land and state cadastres.

On September 8, after a drief illness, Sergey Vyunenko, chairman of the board of Uzmetkombinat JSC, died, the company said in a statement.

President Shavkat Mirziyoyev signed the Measures to boost the development of Uzbekistan’s food industry and provide the population with high-quality food products Decree.

The number of EMS calls has started to rise again, the Health Ministry said in a statement. “According to the statistics for the last 5-6 days, the number of EMS calls has risen from 29.3 thousand to 34.2 thousand. The calls due to acute respiratory diseases increased from 2.2 thousand to 3.0 thousand, while due to high to high temperature, the calls increased from 2,500 to 3,500,” Farrukh Sharipov, head of a department at the Health Ministry, said. 

Tajikistan has resumed the electricity supply to Afghanistan and is considering to resume exports to Uzbekistan, Asia-Plus said.

An Uzbekistan national, 22-year-old Abdulla Soipov, has died falling from a steep cliff near a waterfall in southern Thailand, pattayapeople.ru reported.

The Uzbek government delegation will attend the upcoming SCO Foreign Ministries Council Meeting, the Uzbek Foreign Ministry said.

The Uzbekistan Prime Minister Abdulla Aripov will be the first high-ranking foreign government official to visit Tajikistan since the pandemic.

Uzbek national Abdulkadir Masharipov sentenced over gun attack on Istanbul nightclub which took 39 lives, injuring 70 others, Anadolu said.

In Uzbekistan, 30-40 thousand coronavirus tests are being done every day, member of the anti-coronavirus headquarters, Rustam Ikramov said on Monday.

After a six-month break, 329 public schools in Uzbekistan have resumed classes starting from September 7, the Ministry of Public Education said.

Uzbekistan is considering to purchase Russia’s fast track vaccine against coronavirus and is monitoring the epidemiological situation overseas, exploring the possibility of resuming flights, said Bakhodir Yusupaliev, Director of the Agency for Sanitary and Epidemiological/First Deputy Minister of Health, this in a briefing today.

800 Asian bustards, or beauty bustards have been set free in Tomdi, Konimekh and Uchquduq districts of the Navoi province, the press service of the State Committee for Ecology and Environmental Protection reported. The event was held on September 2 and 3 by the Committee, the Emirates Center for the Conservation of the Bustard Beauty (UAE) and Falcon Hunting Solutions.

The Uzbekistan team was placed third in the overall standings at the International Army Games, said the Uzbek Minister of Defense, Major General Bakhodir Kurbanov.

The Cabinet of Ministers issued the Measures to further improve the mechanisms for collecting, processing and storing information on foreign legal entities operating through a representative office, branch or permanent establishment and individuals carrying out entrepreneurial activities Resolution.

The U.S. Government, through the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), has donated 200 ventilators to Uzbekistan to assist its fight against COVID-19. This assistance is just the latest donation by the United States of critical supplies in response to Uzbekistan’s request for international assistance related to the pandemic.  

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The press service of the General Prosecutor's Office (GPO) of Uzbekistan, citing the prosecutor's office of Karakalpakstan, published the details of the probe into the death of a man in the Turtkul district after he reportedly "visited" a police department.

Uzbekistan's gross foreign exchange and gold reserves as of August 1 reached US$ 34.7 billion, having increased by US$ 5.6 billion year-to-date, the Central Bank said in a report.

On August 18, the Cabinet of Ministers issued a resolution on strengthening strategic partnership and expanding cooperation between Uzbekistan and Turkey, the Ministry of Justice said.

According to the document, the Turkish Consulate General will open in Samarkand before 2021.

The resolution provides for the expansion of technical assistance from the Turkish government to Uzbekistan.

Turkish experts will be recruited to work on improving the management of health infrastructure facilities, strengthening the regulatory framework in the field of seismology, introducing international standards in the field of road and roadside infrastructure construction, as well as transferring Turkey's best e-government solutions and technologies.