According to the data from the Ministry of Health and Social Protection of the Population (MoHSPP), 37 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 12,741 as of the evening of December 14.  

The number of coronavirus-linked deaths remains the same in the country – 88, a MoHSPP says.

39 COVID-19 patients were reportedly discharged after recovery yesterday.  In all, 12,172 (97.4 percent) coronavirus patients have reportedly recovered in the country as of the evening of December 14. 

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.      

The coronavirus COVID-19 is reportedly affecting 218 countries and territories around the world and two international conveyances.

Coronavirus cases around the globe have been reported at 73,190,427 since China reported its first cases to the World Health Organization (WHO) in December, Worldometer said today morning (04:13 GMT).  Of them, 51,324,489 have recovered and 1,627,900 have died.

CNN said yesterday night that the United States is giving the first doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine as the nation surpassed 300,000 deaths.

Health experts are reportedly warning it's likely the United States will not see any meaningful, widespread impacts from vaccinations until well into 2021.