Uzbekistan: project on launching COVID-19 vaccine production with China to be accelerated

[Uzbekistan: Moody's improves country rating outlook to positive] Minister of Innovative Development of Uzbekistan Ibrokhim Abdurakhmonov had a telephone conversation with Ambassador of China to Uzbekistan Jiang Yan. At the beginning of the conversation, the ambassador congratulated on the successful holding of the fifth meeting of the subcommittee on scientific and technical cooperation of the Uzbek-Chinese Intergovernmental Committee for Cooperation and highly appreciated the work carried out between the two sides. The parties also discussed the launch of the production of vaccines against coronavirus in Uzbekistan. Abdurakhmonov said that negotiations with the Chinese company Anhui Zhifei Longcom were currently underway,…