AKIPRESS.COM - Uzbekistan has confirmed the first case of coronavirus, the Sanitary and Epidemiological Welfare Agency reported.

An Uzbek citizen who had returned from France tested positive for coronavirus.

Measures to prevent the spread of new virus are currently being taken in Uzbekistan, the statement says.

Uzbekistan will be closing universities, schools and kindergartens from March 16 because of the coronavirus, Prime Minister Abdulla Aripov said.