News Snapshot:
This summer has seen an increase in the number of cases of coronavirus in Central Asia. Kazakhstan seems to have been hit the hardest, with officials reporting about 8,000 cases daily in early August, four times the number the country was reporting in August 2020 . Tajikistan has grudgingly admitted the coronavirus is spreading again, after earlier this year Tajik officials declared they had beaten the virus and it was no longer present, and Turkmenistan, in defiance of reason, clings to its tale that there has never been coronavirus in the country. On this week's Majlis Podcast, RFE/RL media-relations manager...
