One more coronavirus-related death was reported in Tajikistan yesterday, bringing a total number of the officially confirmed coronavirus-linked deaths in the country to 72, according to the Ministry of Health and Social Protection of the Population (MoHSPP).
40 new officially confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) were reported in Tajikistan yesterday, bringing a total number of the officially confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the country to 8,939 as of the morning of September 11, a MoHSPP says.
7,714 (more than 86 percent) COVID-19 patients have reportedly recovered in the country as of the morning of September 11.
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.
The coronavirus COVID-19 is affecting 213 countries and territories around the world and 2 international conveyances.
According to COVID-19 data provided by Worldmeter, coronavirus cases around the globe have been reported at 28,328,131 since China reported its first cases to the World Health Organization (WHO) in December. Of them, 20,242,740 have recovered and 913,919 have died.
CNN says an ensemble forecast by the CDC now projects there will be up to 217,000 Covid-19 deaths in the United States by October 3.
