COVID-19 pandemic in Uzbekistan | |
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Disease | COVID-19 |
Virus strain | SARS-CoV-2 |
Location | Uzbekistan |
First outbreak | Wuhan, Hubei, China (globally) France/United Kingdom/Turkey (locally) Paris, France (origin of first Uzbekistan case) |
Index case | Tashkent |
Arrival date | 15 March 2020 (4 years, 5 months, 1 week and 3 days) |
Confirmed cases | 250,273[1] |
Recovered | 195,840[1] |
Deaths | 1637[1] |
Government website | |
coronavirus |
The COVID-19 pandemic in Uzbekistan was a part of the worldwide pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The virus was confirmed to have spread to Uzbekistan when its first case was confirmed on 15 March 2020, an Uzbek citizen returning from France.[2]