President Shavkat Mirziyoyev has signed the decree on measures to mitigate the negative consequences of the coronavirus pandemic, radical improvement of the system of sanitary-epidemiological well-being and health protection of the population.

The decree sets out the following urgent measures to protect the health and epidemiological well-being of the population:

- each family polyclinic and central multidisciplinary polyclinics will now have mobile units, for them, simplified instructions will be developed;

- laboratory studies of the private sector will be involved in the introduction of rapid testing and immune enzyme analysis methods;

- the health system will ensure that patients are tested for coronavirus immediately upon request and they will be notified of the results within three days through personal phone numbers;

- the system for the mutual exchange of information between healthcare institutions will be simplified - the types and frequency of reports and other processes related to paperwork will be converted into an electronic form.