One more officially confirmed coronavirus-linked death was reported in Tajikistan yesterday, bringing a total number of the officially confirmed coronavirus-related deaths in the country to 70, according to the Ministry of Health and Social Protection of the Population (MoHSPP).
Over the past weekends (September 5 and 6), 68 new officially confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) were reported in Tajikistan, bringing a total number of officially confirmed cases of the virus in the country to 8,792, says a MoHSPP.
7,581 (86.2 percent) COVID-19 patients have reportedly recovered in the country as of the evening of September 6.
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 27,292,585 since China reported its first cases to the World Health Organization (WHO) in December. Of them, 19,377,268 have recovered and 887,554 have died.
