Tashkent, Uzbekistan (UzDaily.com) -- Today, polling stations have been established in more than 150 hospitals in the republic to ensure patients vote.

The 53 people who visited the polling stations had an elevated body temperature and were immediately transferred to a separate room, where they were given the opportunity to vote.

The head of the Sanitary and Epidemiological Surveillance and Health Service, Chief State Sanitary Doctor Bakhodir Yusupaliev announced this in the press center of the Central Election Commission of Uzbekistan.