Thirty-six 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 COVDI-9 in the country to 8,690 as of the evening of September, according to the Ministry of Health and Social Protection of the Population (MoHSPP).

A MoHSPP claims that the number of coronavirus-linked deaths has been reported in the country at 69.

7,492 (83.8 percent) COVID-19 patients have reportedly recovered in Tajikistan as of the evening of September 3, 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.   

As far as the Central Asian region is concerned, the largest number of the officially confirmed cases of COVID-19 has been reported in Kazakhstan.

Since the onset of the pandemic, Kazakhstan has reportedly recorded 131,000 cases of the coronavirus infection.  The COVID-19 has reportedly killed 1,781 people countrywide.

In Kyrgyzstan, the number of officially confirmed coronavirus has been reported at 44,135 as of the evening of September 3, of which 39,174 have recovered and 1,059 have died.  .   

In Uzbekistan, 42,688 cases of COVID-19 have been officially reported as of the evening of September 3, of which 40,081 have recovered and 331 have died.      

Meanwhile, according to COVID-19 data provided by Worldmeter, coronavirus cases around the globe have been reported at 26,471,718 since China reported its first cases to the World Health Organization (WHO) in December.  Of them, 18,664,286 have recovered and 873,360 have died.