32 new officially confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) were reported in Tajikistan yesterday, bringing a total number of the officially confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the country to 8,824 as of the evening of September 7, according to the Ministry of Health and Social Protection of the Population (MoHSPP).

A MoHSPP claims that the number of coronavirus-linked deaths has been reported in the country at 70.  

7,616 (86.2 percent) COVID-19 patients have reportedly recovered as of the evening of September 7.   

Besides, more than 1,000 people in Tajikistan have reportedly been treating COVID-19 at home under supervision of family doctors.    

The COVID-19 pandemic in Tajikistan is part of the worldwide pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2).  The virus was confirmed to have spread to Tajikistan when its index cases, in Dushanbe and Khujand, were confirmed on April 30, 2020.   

Meanwhile, according to COVID-19 data provided by Worldmeter, coronavirus cases around the globe have been reported at 27,489,198 since China reported its first cases to the World Health Organization (WHO) in December.  Of them, 19,590,272 have recovered and 896,867 have died.