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Afghan parliament shuts down over coronavirus pandemic
5 months ago Web Desk 0
The decision to shut the parliament was made by lawmakers through open voting. Baztab News says Afghanistan’s parliament has shut down for two weeks So far, the parliament was holding its general session once a week, but its commissions were carrying out administrative duties on the days. According to TOLONews, the parliament’s speaker Mir Rahman Read More
Tajik writer Muhiddin Khojazod, who was diagnosed with pneumonia, is still in hard condition
5 months ago Web Desk 0
“He is currently in an intensive care unit connected to a ventilator,” said the source. “His wife Muhayo Muzaffarova died of pneumonia on April 28. She also had a high blood pressure. Meanwhile, their daughter, who was looking after her, also has a fever and she is in quarantine in the regional central hospital in Read More
WHO seeks Russia’s support for organization of trip of its mission to Tajikistan and Turkmenistan
5 months ago Web Desk 0
Russian media reports say Dr. Kluge asked Mrs. Popova to provide assistance to WHO mission to Tajikistan and Turkmenistan. The World Health Organization’s European director, in particular, noted that those two countries claimed not to have any coronavirus infections. Kluge reportedly asked Popova to recruit Russian specialists for participation in the work of an expert Read More
Khujand mitigates effects of natural disaster
5 months ago Web Desk 0
“The storm was so powerful that it uprooted dozens of large trees and damaged power transmission lines,” Mamourkhon Yusufov, a spokesman for the Khujand Administration, told Asia-Plus in an interview. Fortunately, no injured was reported, according to the source. Yusufov says a special commission has been set up to ass the actual damaged caused by Read More
‘The disease took us by surprise.’ International Clinic “Ibn Sina” reports on infection of its employees
5 months ago Web Desk 0
Abdukhalil Kholiqzod, the head of the Board of Directors of International Clinic “Ibn Sina,” has written on his Facebook page that several employees of the hospital contracted “the infectious disease which has spread across the country. “The disease, unfortunately, took by surprise even medical workers. Several employees of Clinic “Ibn Sina” have also contracted this Read More
Tajikistan officially admits to coronavirus crisis
5 months ago Web Desk 0
According to the Ministry of Health and Social Protection of the Population (MoHSPP), fifteen confirmed COID-19 cases have been reported in the country as of April 29 – ten cases in the Sughd province and five cases in Dushanbe. This was officially announced today at an extraordinary session of the Republican Commission for Prevention of Read More
Tajikistan officially admits to coronavirus crisis (updated)
5 months ago Web Desk 0
According to the Ministry of Health and Social Protection of the Population (MoHSPP), fifteen confirmed COVID-19 cases have been reported in the country as of April 29 – ten cases in the Sughd province and five cases in Dushanbe. This was officially announced today at an extraordinary session of the Republican Commission for Prevention of Read More
WB: Tajikistan’s banking sector is expected to experience a deterioration of the loan portfolio in 2020
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The share of nonperforming loans (NPL) reportedly stood at 26 percent at the end of 2019 (down from 48 percent in 2016), and the capital adequacy ratio rose to 21.4 percent (from 17 percent in 2016). Banking sector profitability also continued to improve, and the level of dollarization declined to 53 percent at the end Read More