Tashkent, Uzbekistan (UzDaily.com) -- Due to the relatively low risk of contracting coronavirus in our country, a significant reduction in the number of patients with this disease, the Ministry of Healthcare of Uzbekistan informed that several hospitals where COVID-19 is treated are returning to their normal working regime and have begun to take patients in their direction.

According to the relevant order of the Minister of Health, three more hospitals in the capital: the City Clinical Emergency Hospital, the City Perinatal Center and the City Infectious Diseases Hospital No. 3 will continue to work in their profile.

These hospitals have stopped accepting patients with coronavirus from 2 December 2020 and patients who need to continue treatment for COVID-19 will be transferred to infectious diseases hospitals No. 1 and No. 2 in Zangiata district, respectively.

After the patients are discharged from the institutions, disinfection measures will be carried out in the established order, the existing medical equipment will be preserved and all the necessary anti-epidemic measures will be taken. Medicines used to treat coronavirus infection will be kept as a reserve.