Russia finally has made an anti covid19 drug

Earlier in the day, Russia’s operational headquarters for preventing the spread of COVID-19 reported that the number of patients infected with the coronavirus in Russia has increased by 228 people over the past 24 hours, and that one more person has died.

The Russian Federal Medical-Biological Agency (FMBA) said in a statement that it has presented a drug to treat the coronavirus, which has affected almost every corner of the globe.

Russia's FMBA is working "on an effective and safe scheme to prevent the coronavirus infection on the basis of mefloquine, which will not only overcome the peak of incidence but also effectively control it in the future", their press service said.

As of 28 March, Russia has registered 1,264 COVID-19 cases in 62 regions.

Putin Says Russia May Defeat Coronavirus in Less Than Three Months

On 26 March, Russian President Vladimir Putin shared his views on what Russia needs to do to contain the virus.

"My colleague expects we will defeat the coronavirus in two or three months. This is a fine forecast, since in many countries people say the war will be going on for a very long period of time ... We will certainly get over this situation, and I hope even earlier than you have said [two or three months]”, Putin said at a meeting with Russian business persons on 26 March.

Russia has joined nations around the globe to contain the spread of the new coronavirus. The measures include travel restrictions, quarantine for infected individuals and people over the age of 65, a week-long paid holiday for non-essential workers that starts from 28 March, funding to encourage businesses to convert their resources to the production of medical equipment, and other steps.

Russian Scientists Successfully Sequence Full Genome of Coronavirus

A week ago, the Russian Health Ministry's press service said that Russian scientists had succeeded in sequencing the full genime of covid19 that will help develop a vaccine and the necessary drugs.

According to the ministry, the sequenced COVID-19 genome will help develop vaccines and antiviral drugs to treat the infection.

"This coronavirus is new for us; therefore it is critically important to be able to determine the path of its spread and entry into the territory of our country, its change. This information will help develop vaccines and antiviral drugs to treat the coronavirus", Dmitry Lionozov, the acting director of the Smorodintsev Research Institute of Influenza said as quoted by the press service.

The World Health Organisation declared COVID-19 a pandemic on 11 March. More than 600,000 cases were confirmed worldwide by Saturday and more than 27,000 people have died from complications caused by the coronavirus disease, according to Johns Hopkins University.

USA hassling to get a name to her newly formed space army

The fledgling military branch promised that it would continue to operate despite the coronavirus raging in the country and the US military reportedly diverting resources to help authorities combat the outbreak.

The US Space Force (USSF) is continuing to work on a name for its troops and will reveal one soon, after going through a number of suggestions coming from people who have already been assigned to the novel military branch, USSF chief General John Raymond announced.

"The naming of our space professionals, we did a crowdsourcing ... with over 700 responses to that, and we're narrowing down that list, and I think you'll be hearing an announcement on that in the very near future", he said.

The new force in its uniforms, insignia, and logo in a timely manner, the general added.

"We will not delay those announcements […] we will continue to make those announcements when they're ready", the Space Force head said.

The announcement comes as the Space Force had to cancel the Space Flag 20-2 military exercise planned for April due to the Corona virus outbreak in the country, where at least 85,356 cases have been reported - three of which are members of the newly formed American military branch.

The COVID-19 virus has claimed the lives of 1,246 people in the US so far and 28,717 globally. China was long the country with the greatest number of reported cases, but recently moved to third place, with Italy and the US taking the second and first places respectively.

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Pentagon Activates Special Protocols to Fight COVID-19, Can Hide Info About Infected Troops - Report

The US has ordered the National Guard to help civil authorities fight the infection, with the Pentagon reportedly initiating two contingency plans to do the same. Some 1,100 servicemen have reportedly been directed to help authorities in the states of New York and Washington.

Virgin Mary appears in Covid 19 hit town..and they claim she has come to save them

According to local witnesses, what started as a rainbow gradually transformed into the discernible features of Jesus Christ’s mother, with many firmly believing they are all under the protecting veil of the Holy Lady.

Christians have claimed the figure of Virgin Mary recently appeared on the Argentinian skyline as a sign the people are under her holy protection during the raging coronavirus epidemic.

The moment three shafts of blue and white light popped up on the horizon was captured on camera in the early evening hours on Wednesday, in San Carlos, in the province of Corrientes, northeastern Argentina.

This picture was taken in the sky above Argentina. Some see the The Virgin Mary🙏 pic.twitter.com/QZz0G4dbFt

— Biloxi Blue Resistance (@Kcamp1776) March 27, 2020

“In the sky a rainbow started to be seen, and then some drops started to create the figure (of the Virgin) in the sky surrounding the Sun,” wrote an unnamed netizen whose daughter captured the moment on camera. Local media outlets have also begun speculating on the now viral pictures, reporting that for some residents the figure seen in the sky was reminiscent of the Virgin of Itati, the patron saint of the province.

“Thanks Mother for protecting us, for interceding for God, and for your mercy for the people”, another person was cited by the Daily Star as commenting on the phenomenal sighting. The figure was also reportedly seen in the immediate neighbourhood - the town of Candelaria, also in San Carlos, considered to be one of the oldest Jesuit towns in the province.

“There are a lot of stories… I do know we are very sensitive, aren’t we asking for a bit of hope?” Nancy Cervantes Saez was cited as saying.

A sign of hope in trying times? https://t.co/Oijz8NDSpf

— 710 KURV (@710KURV) March 27, 2020

The sighting of the peculiarly shaped light flashes comes as the coronavirus pandemic rages across South America, with Argentina imposing a nationwide quarantine from 19 March until 31 March.

Statistics say the overall number of confirmed coronavirus cases across the world at 601,520. In Argentina 601 have been infected to date, showing a rise of 101 in the past 24 hours.

Italy continues to be a hotspot of the pandemic, as the coronavirus plague has been declared by the WHO, with the death toll there (over 9,100 people) the highest in the world. The pandemic has caused lockdowns and national emergencies to be declared in most countries worldwide.

The new Coronavirus extortion scam asks for $4000 in Bitcoin or scammers will infect the victim’s family with the virus.

In the past, we’ve seen sextortionists email blackmailing people them by claiming to have access to their private data which may involve text messages, photos, and videos. But recently, with the Coronavirus pandemic, such attackers have started using the virus as an additional point in their emails.
How they do this is by emailing people warning them that they could infect one’s whole family with the coronavirus while leaking your secret data in the process. The subject line is cleverly positioned to include your name and password in succession attracting your attention in the first place and prompting you to open the email.
Further, they propose that if one wants to escape this life destructing humiliation, they should pay a certain amount of money within a specific time frame via a cryptocurrency such as Bitcoin.


In some cases to make it all the more convincing, they may also add a few breached credentials of yours which are easily available online giving the impression that they can access your data too if they have accessed your login details.
Nonetheless, to conclude, it is important you remember a few things. Firstly, it is scientifically impossible to infect someone with the disease over the internet(save the cringe-ness of some) and so just ignore such claims.
Secondly, if someone alleges to have your private data, it is highly likely that they won’t unless you receive the attached evidence indicating so. In the latter case, it is recommended that you get in touch with your local cybercrime unit as there’s no guarantee the blackmailing will stop even if you do make the payment.
Nevertheless, beware of ongoing cyber attacks related to Coronavirus. For instance, last week, HackRead.com published a report highlighting how dark web hackers are offering “online sales” on hacking tools but in reality, it’s just another trick to pwn unsuspected users.
In another recent report , researchers exposed how hackers have been using fake live maps of Coronavirus to deliver malware. However, it doesn’t end here. A so-called Coronavirus app was also caught using live-map to spread
CovidLock ransomware.
If you would like to research the ongoing pandemic or like to keep an eye on which country has been infected and which not, follow Bing COVID Tracker , Ncov2019.live or Johns Hopkins University’s live map for Coronavirus outbreak.

Germany laptop sold on e-bay has been found with vital info about Germany army

It is important that when an IT asset is disposed of, all sensitive information is destroyed for obvious purposes. However, there are times when an error may occur due to negligence leaking critical data in the process.
One such incident occurred a few days ago when a German military laptop was sold on eBay for just €90 inclusive of the shipping cost. Purchased by a firm named G Data which specializes in cybersecurity, they reported the entire incident in a company blog post on 16 March.

The computer, a product of Roda featured a 128 MB RAM and was running on Windows 2000 & an Intel Pentium III processor. When dug further, it turns out that the laptop contained sensitive information including military secrets.
Here is a photo of the laptop that was being sold on eBay:

Image credit: G Data
Identified to be originating from Bundeswehr – the German army – an administrator program was found on it called MODIS which had “GUEST” as its username already entered.
Trying “Guest” in the password field as well yielded fruit as the program logged in granting access. This led the researchers to find details of a tank equipped with an anti-aircraft system known as Ocelot. Additional information on its schematics, maintenance and operations were also available.

Image of the tank: G Data
As for how they knew it was sensitive is not only because of the nature of what was revealed to them but also the fact that “At the top of every page of the TDv you can see a confidentiality note: VS grade: only for official use” as described by the researchers.
Regardless, it is satisfactory to know that all of these details did not create any significant security risks as the instructions surrounding the tank were not usable by anyone but the German army itself due to only them possessing the specific tank at hand.
Malicious actors though may use the information as an edge in possible future attacks either on a cyber or physical level. In addition to this, Microsoft Outlook was found to be installed as well but logged out with no other data on the computer.
To conclude, leaving a complete program by mistake is one thing but many also fail to properly delete their files permanently when selling their computers or smartphones. For instance, according to a recent stud y done by the University of Hertfordshire, it has been found that among the 100 second-hand phones purchased by the firm on eBay specifically for the study between January and June in 2018, 17% of them contained the previous owner’s personal data.
To avoid making such errors, it is advised that one either remove/destroy their hard drive or use a professional program that can overwrite the disk leaving no room for recovery which may be possible otherwise.

The desert locust, dubbed “the most destructive migratory pest in the world” by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization’s (FAO) Locust Watch

As the world continues to combat COVID-19 novel coronavirus, millions in Africa and the Middle East are expected to also be hit with the ever-worsening desert locust crisis, which experts say has the ability to grow at an unprecedented rate due to favorable breeding conditions triggered by climate change.
The desert locust, dubbed “the most destructive migratory pest in the world” by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization’s (FAO) Locust Watch , is positioned to wreak havoc on the food security of millions of people after recently disrupting the lives of individuals in Kenya, Ethiopia and Somalia.
Keith Cressman, senior locust forecasting expert for the FAO, told The Guardian this week that while the desert locust swarms should be decreasing in the foreseeable future as they historically have, climate change has created a new normal that endangers the food security of some 25 million people.
The FAO official explained that desert locust populations begin to expand as a response to moist conditions and continue to thrive in areas that are plentiful in vegetation. He noted that it was May 2018’s Cyclone Mekunu that created an ideal environment in the desert between Saudi Arabia, Oman and Yemen for the desert locust, which can eat roughly the equivalent of its own mass in fresh food a day.

LOCUST WATCH/UN FAO
Desert Locust plagues can develop in a recession area that extends from West Africa to India; an area equivalent to about 16 million square km. Scattered solitarious locusts breed on winter, spring and summer rains that fall sporadically in this area. If heavy rains fall in successive seasonal breeding areas, the locusts will gregarize and, unless prevented by control, drought or migration to unsuitable habitats, plagues can form.
“Just about when those conditions are drying out and the breeding is coming to an end, a second cyclone came to the area,” Cressman said. “That allowed the conditions to continue to be favorable and another generation of breeding, so instead of increasing 400-fold, they increased 8,000-fold.”
Cyclone Sagar, the strongest recorded cyclone to hit Somalia, came about just days prior to Mekunu, and both were followed by Cyclone Luban mere months later in October 2018.
“Usually a cyclone brings favorable conditions for about six months, and then the habitat dries out, and so it’s not favourable for reproduction, and they die and migrate,” the FAO official explained about the insects.
However, warmer seas from climate change bring about an increase in cyclones and subsequent rainfall that create conditions conducive to desert locust breeding. The FAO highlights that “moist sandy or sandy/clay soil” is prime breeding ground for the insects.
“This analogous forecasting methodology used to work pretty good up until five years ago, and it’s just not working very well any more at all because of the rainfall, the timing, the distribution. It’s very different,” Cressman confessed.
According to current Locust Watch reporting , a total of 10 countries have seen substantial desert locust swarms recently: Kenya, Ethiopia, Yemen, Iran, Sudan, Eritrea, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Somalia and Oman.
“The situation remains extremely alarming in the Horn of Africa, specifically Kenya, Ethiopia and Somalia where widespread breeding is in progress and new swarms are starting to form,” the FAO stressed.
The UN organization filed an appeal in February which called for $138 million in funding to provide aid to countries impacted by the ravenous desert locusts. As of a March 16 news release , a total of $105 million has been pledged.

Jack ma of Alibaba and his foundation has offered help of Corona virus test kits to Rwanda!!! Let us pray hard that this disease gets of the poor country

A week of tension between Zambian and Congolese naval forces on the border of Moliro

Tension has been observed for a week between the Zambian and Congolese naval forces on the border of Moliro, 400 km in Moba territory southeast of Kalemie (Tanganyika). According to local sources, this tension was caused by the tracking of Congolese fishermen who use prohibited mesh nets. The Tanganyika provincial government has just dispatched the provincial interior minister to Zambia.
According to a witness, Congolese fishermen hunted in Moba territory have found refuge in Zambia to carry out their fishing activities on Lake Tanganyika, which shares the two countries.
“The Zambian soldiers came to Kibanga-Zambia to tell the fishermen to return to the Congo. To return to the Congo, the fishermen are afraid of the Congolese soldiers who are in Kibanga-Congo. Zambian soldiers took speedboats from Zambia to Kibanga-Congo. They wanted to force the Congolese soldiers out by force; they stole the Congolese flag. They started to confront each other, "he said.
MPP Jean Manda says the problem has never been resolved for several years.
"Can a foreign force easily enter our country and take the insignia of the country, the flag? This is very serious. We never managed to solve the Kapingu problem, on the Moliro side in Moba. The population never returned several years ago because the Zambian army intervened. Who are we ? "He wonders.
The provincial interior minister arrived in the Zambian capital Lusaka last Thursday for peace talks between the two Zambian and Congolese territories

Ugandan,Ministry of healthy clarification on covid 19 virus

We need UPDF at Entebbe airport!!!! We are tired of these goons who do not love uganda

We need updf in Entebbe ASAP. Entebbe is becoming susceptible to foreigners from high risky countries affected by covid19. If this is not done quickly, Entebbe could turn into an epicenter of the Wuhan virus. Ruth Achieng is doing a great job but she's needs surport. The Chinese used their military to manage stiuations that wu'd compromise their efforts and now they are wining the war over covid19.

And these extortionist will be the ones to start blaming the gorvenment!!!!