People wearing protective face masks line up at a safe social distance outside the grocery store amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, April 9, 2020. (Photo: Agencies)

TASHKENT - Uzbekistan introduced second lockdown from July 10 to August 1 in an effort to prevent the spread of the coronavirus, the country's Special Republican Commission to Combat Coronavirus said on Wednesday.