The head of the State Inspection for Sanitary and Epidemiological Control, the Chief Sanitary Inspector Nurmat Otabekov denied the information that coronavirus infection case was registered in the khokimiyat of Tashkent.

“There was a rumor that coronavirus infection case was detected in the khokimiyat of Tashkent. This is absolutely not true. There is a liability for those who disseminated this false information,” he said during a live broadcast on the UzReport TV channel.

It should be recalled that at present 194 people are being treated for coronavirus in Tashkent.

The number of registered cases in the country currently stands at 534.