TASHKENT, Aug. 14 (Xinhua) -- Uzbekistan's Finance Ministry has proposed to cut some budget expenditures of the state organizations to create a reserve fund to combat the impact of the novel coronavirus pandemic, said a draft government resolution announced Friday.

According to the proposal, by suspending the bonuses for civil servants and reducing official travels until the end of the year, as well as by optimizing local budgets, the Uzbek government would be able to save nearly 100 million U.S. dollars, said the draft resolution.

Saved resources will be directed to the anti-crisis fund under the Finance Ministry to fight the coronavirus pandemic, it said.

The Central Asian country with 34 million people has spent more than 742 million dollars fighting the pandemic as of Aug. 1, according to the document.

So far, Uzbekistan has registered 33,821 confirmed COVID-19 cases, with 220 deaths and 27,825 recoveries.