The number of people infected with coronavirus has reached 56 people in Uzbekistan.

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According to the press service of the Ministry of Health, a new case of infection was detected in an Uzbek man who was in contact with a citizen who returned from a foreign country.

Earlier, the head of the State Inspection for Sanitary-Epidemiological Control Nurmat Otabekov, during a regular briefing, said that the condition of 4 patients infected with coronavirus was assessed as serious.