33 new officially confirmed cases of novel coronavirus (COVID-19) were reported in Tajikistan yesterday, bringing a total number of officially confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the country to 8,583 as of the evening of August 31, a MoHSPP said.
The number of coronavirus-linked deaths has been reported in the country at 68, according to a MoHSPP.
7,376 (83.8 percent) COVID-19 patients have reportedly recovered in Tajikistan as of the evening of August 31, 2020.
Besides, more than 1,000 people in Tajikistan have reportedly been treating COVID-19 at home under supervision of family doctors.
The COVID-19 pandemic in Tajikistan is part of the worldwide pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The virus was confirmed to have spread to Tajikistan when its index cases, in Dushanbe and Khujand, were confirmed on April 30, 2020.
Meanwhile, according to COVID-19 data provided by Worldmeter, coronavirus cases around the globe have been reported at 25,637,334 since China reported its first cases to the World Health Organization (WHO) in December. Of them, 17,941,703 have recovered and 854,763 have died.
According to CNN, more than 6 million cases of coronavirus have been reported in the US. The total includes more than 183,000 deaths.
Three vaccines are reportedly now in Phase 3 trials in the United States. British drugmaker AstraZeneca announced yesterday that its vaccine candidate had entered this phase.
India's infection rate has increased exponentially in recent weeks, CNN says. It took almost six months for the country to record 1 million cases, another three weeks to hit 2 million, and only 16 more days to hit 3 million. Only the US and Brazil have recorded more total cases.
