A team of specialists from Roskomnadzor may visit Uzbekistan in the near future to share their experience with Uzbek partners on the organization of activities against the coronavirus pandemic. The official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, said.

“A team of specialists from Roskomnadzor is planning to visit Uzbekistan to advise Uzbek partners on the organization of anti-epidemic measures. We expect this visit to take place in the near future and hope that the measures taken together will allow to qualitatively improve the epidemiological situation in the country,” she said.

The diplomat noted that more than 1,000 Russian-made test systems for the diagnosis of coronavirus infection were donated by Russia to assist Uzbekistan in the fight against the pandemic between March and July. 

“The Ministry of Health and Roskomnadzor hold regular videoconferences with Uzbek specialists on issues related to the treatment of the coronavirus infection and sanitary-epidemiological well-being of the population,” she added.

The official spokesperson for the MFA of Russia also noted that a team of 38 Russian doctors had been sent to Tashkent on August 16. It included anesthesiologists, resuscitators, pulmonologists, infectious diseases specialists, cardiologists and general practitioners from Moscow, Saint Petersburg and Tatarstan. They will provide practical and methodical assistance to Uzbek colleagues in the treatment of patients with COVID-19 in clinics of Tashkent, Samarkand, Bukhara, Khorezm, Jizzakh and other regions.