As previously reported, the first batch of the Sputnik V vaccine was delivered to Uzbekistan.
To support child survival efforts through robust immunization systems in Uzbekistan, today UNICEF is handing over a modern warehouse to the Sanitary and Epidemiological Welfare and Public Health Service of the Bukhara region. It is equipped with new refrigerators, freezers for vaccines, temperature monitoring devices, cold boxes, and vaccine carriers.
The National Chamber of Innovative Healthcare of Uzbekistan organized an online meeting with representatives of Italy’s Opera Company.
National Chamber of Innovative Healthcare of the Republic of Uzbekistan representatives have met with an international expert, professor of Korea University Medical Center, Choi Jae-wook.
UNICEF is leading efforts to procure and supply COVID-19 vaccines in what could possibly be the world’s largest and fastest ever procurement and supply of vaccines, as part of the global vaccine plan of the COVID-19 Vaccine Global Access Facility (COVAX Facility) led by Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance.
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, U.S. Embassy in Uzbekistan reports.
The Government adopted Resolution "On measures to ensure wide coverage of the population by the ambulance service during the fight against coronavirus infection" (from July 20, 2020, № 446).
At the International Press Club, Head of the State Inspection of Sanitary and Epidemiological Surveillance under the Cabinet of Ministers, Chief State Sanitary Inspector of Uzbekistan Nurmat Otabekov told about the plans for antibody testing in the country.
Uzbekistan has developed an Interim Clinical Guidelines for treating patients with mild COVID-19 at home. Experts from the National Chamber of Innovative Healthcare of the country worked on the document.
As of June 11, 10:00, the number of coronavirus infected in Uzbekistan has reached 4695 (+72) people, the Ministry of Health reports.
