An official coronavirus-linked death toll is continuing to rise in Tajikistan.
According to data from the Ministry of Health and Social Protection of the Population (MoHSPP), one more coronavirus-linked death has been officially confirmed in Tajikistan as of the evening of July 15 bringing a total number of the coronavirus-related deaths that have been officially registered in the country since June 21, 2021 to twenty.
Thus, a total number of the officially confirmed coronavirus-linked deaths in Tajikistan has reached 110 since April 30, 2020, when the infection index cases were officially confirmed in Dushanbe and Khujand.
42 new cases of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) have been officially confirmed in Tajikistan as of the evening of July 14, bringing a total number of COVID-19 cases officially reported in the country since June 21 to 639.
The total number of the officially confirmed cases of COVID-19 infection in Tajikistan has reached 14,000 since April 30, 2020, when its index cases were confirmed in the country.
A MoHSPP says thirty-one COVID-19 patients recovered in the country yesterday, bringing a total number of those who have been cured in Tajikistan since April 30, 2020 to 13,631 (99 percent).
Meanwhile, according to unofficial data, the number of affected persons and deaths is in the thousands.
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 30 April 2020.
The UN health agency on July 14 announced the early stage of COVID third wave. WHO Director-General, Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, described the recent data in an address to the Emergency Committee on COVID-19, established under the International Health Regulations (IHR), a treaty that guides global response to public health risks. Recalling the sustained decline in COVID-19 cases and deaths that was being driven, in recent months, by increasing vaccination rates in Europe and North America, he sounded alarms over the fresh reversal of that positive trend. “Unfortunately…we are now in the early stages of a third wave”, he said.
The coronavirus COVID-19 is reportedly affecting 220 countries and territories. According to COVID-19 data provided by Worldometer, coronavirus cases around the globe have been reported at 189,745,512 since China reported its first cases to the World Health Organization (WHO) in December 2019. Of them, 173,162,320 have recovered and 4,083,197 have died.
