TASHKENT (Reuters) – Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoyev has agreed with his cabinet’s proposal to extend a nationwide lockdown beyond Aug. 1, his office said on Thursday.
Mirziyoyev’s office did not say by how long the Central Asian country would extend its second lockdown introduced after a surge in the COVID-19 cases.
(Reporting by Mukhammadsharif Mamatkulov; editing by Jane Merriman)
