UZBEKISTAN COVID-19 SITUATION REPORT 7 JANUARY 2021 (DATA AS AT 11PM, PREVIOUS DAY)

This Sitrep outlines current information on the COVID-19 outbreak in , and summarizes international partners’ support to the nation-

Total Cases: 77,412

Total Recovered: 75,759

Total Deaths: 615

Daily new cases: 62

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HIGHLIGHTS • Checkpoint on the Uzbek-Tajik border resumed its work for the first time since March 2020

EPIDEMIOLOGICAL UPDATE Cumulative cases by regions as of 6 January: City: 45,294 (+12) Syrdarya: 1270 Tashkent region: 15,460 (+10) Surkhandarya: 1079 : 2661 (+3) Karakalpakstan: 853 : 2453 (+8) Khorezm: 820 (+6) : 2181 (+11) : 802 Kashkadarya: 1612 (+2) : 797 (+2) : 1450 (+5) : 680 (+3)

This chart shows the daily increase in confirmed new cases, as well as a 5-day moving average which helps smooth out the ‘noise’ from short-term fluctuations by averaging the data from the last five days reported.

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Epidemiological update (cont’d): New cases by region expense of visitors. This procedure also applies to those • 31 December: +66. Tashkent City +40; Namangan +8; who have a certificate with a negative PCR COVID-19 Fergana +6; Tashkent region +5; Andijan +2; Khorezm test. (Ministry of Health and podrobno.uz) +2; Jizzakh +1; Karakalpakstan +1; Kashkadarya +1. • Uzbekistan to build a distribution center for COVID-19 • 1 January: +56. Tashkent City +33; Namangan +8; patients in the Khatlon region on the south of Tashkent region +6; Andijan +4; Surkhandarya +3; Tajikistan. It is planned to be finished in spring 2021 Jizzakh +2. (gazeta.uz). • 2 January: +49. Tashkent City +30; Namangan +5; • A group of 20 Afghan medical workers arrived in Tashkent region +5; Andijan +4; Khorezm +3; Jizzakh Uzbekistan to study country’s experience in the +1; Kashkadarya +1. prevention, diagnosis and treatment of COVID-19. They will take master classes in infectious diseases hospitals • 3 January: +27. Tashkent City +18; Tashkent region +5; in Zangiata region, get acquainted with the work in Andijan +2; Jizzakh +1; Kashkadarya +1. central and family polyclinics, and visit Samarkand • 4 January: +37. Tashkent City +21; Fergana +10; region (gazeta.uz). Tashkent region +4; Namangan +2.

• 5 January: +55. Tashkent City +16; Navoiy +8; Bukhara +6; Jizzakh +5; Fergana +4; Surkhandarya +4; Tashkent

region +4; Namangan +3; Andijan +2; Karakalpakstan

+2; Kashkadarya +1.

• 6 January: +62. Tashkent City +12; Andijan +11; Tashkent region +10; Samarkand +8; Khorezm +6; Bukhara +5; Namangan +3; Navoiy +3; Jizzakh +2; Kashkadarya +2. (MoH on coronavirus.uz and via Public Relations Dept).

Latest National COVID-19 Response News • As of 6 January, 1,038 patients are being treated in medical institutions, of whom 155 are in serious

condition and 30 are in critical condition (MoH on

coronavirus.uz and via Public Relations Dept).

• Checkpoint “Jartepa”, located on the border of Uzbekistan and Tajikistan in the of the Samarkand region, resumed its work for the first time since March 2020. Currently only international cargo transportation is allowed to pass through the checkpoint. Additional information on when people be

allowed to cross the border through this checkpoint will

be publish by the Customs department (podrobno.uz).

• More than 12 thousand passengers from 12 countries

arrived to Uzbekistan by air over the past week with 21 of them being diagnosed with COVID-19 after taking rapid COVID-19 antigen test on arrival. Testing is carried out at airports, train stations and border points at the

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