“As of May 16, 2020 10:00 (8:00 Moscow time - RT ) in Uzbekistan, the number of cases of coronavirus infection is 2691,” RIA Novosti reports.

It is specified that more than 500 people with a positive test for coronavirus were hospitalized, eight of whom are in serious condition.

Earlier it became known that more than 40 thousand patients in the country are in quarantine.