The deputy chair of the ruling People’s Democratic Party of Tajikistan (PDPT), Khairinisso Yusufi, is recovering from the novel coronavirus (COVID-19).     

Khairinisso Yusufi and members of her family have been having a hard time fighting COVID-19.

According to one of their family’s close friends, Yusufi’s eldest daughter wa the first to contract the novel coronavirus and then her sons – Bunyod and Masoud – contracted the disease and then Khirinisso Yusufi herself contracted COVID-19. 

All of them were admitted to the Dushanbe infectious diseases hospital in Dushanbe’s Zarafhon area around or on April 18. 

All of them managed to win the virus and they are currently recovering from the novel coronavirus.  

Meanwhile, a reliable source within the hospital says the hospital is divided into two zones: “green” and “red”.

According to him, patients in serious condition are placed in the “red” zone, while patients, whose condition is assessed as stable, are placed in the “green” zone. 

Meanwhile, based on the data from the Ministry of Health and Social Protection of the Population (MoHSPP), Radio Liberty’s Tajik Service says 52 new cases of the novel coronavirus have been reported in the county as of the evening of May 3, bringing a total number of COVID-19 cases in Tajikistan to 128.  Two confirmed COVID-19-linked deaths have been reported in Tajikistan as of the evening of May 3, 2020.