The USNS Comfort, one of two hospital ships mobilised to support the response to the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic, has docked in New York City. #ICYMI: USNS Comfort and crew are docked in #NewYork and ready to support! #ThanksHealthHeroes #USNavyAlwaysThere pic.twitter.com/VYUWhU7c58 — U.S. Navy (@USNavy) March 30, 2020 The ship will be used to treat patients …

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NATO has carried out a strategic airlift to deliver critical medical supplies to Slovakia. The airlift carried facemasks, surgical gloves, protective suits and other supplies to the country. The supplies were transported in Antonov AN-124 on a non-stop flight from Germany to China where it collected cargo and then onto Bratislava for delivery. The aircraft …

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UK politicians have expressed concern to Naval Technology that foreign powers could seek to exploit the Covid-19 pandemic after ‘unusually high’ Russian activity off UK waters lead the Royal Navy and NATO to shadow seven Russian vessels. MP and Chair of the Defence Committee Tobias Ellwood said: “These unusually high levels of activity in the …

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French President Emmanuel Macron launched has launched Operation Resilience support the fight against the spread of the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic in the country. Speaking in Mulhouse Macron said: “We are at war and faced with what is looming, this peak of the epidemic which is before us, I decided, on a proposal from the Minister …

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The first national security space mission for the US Space Force is set to lift off from Florida despite the threat of the Covid-19 coronavirus. The sixth Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF-6) protected communications satellite has been built by Lockheed Martin. The launch is on track from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station’s Complex 41 on …

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The International Training Technology Exhibition & Conference (IT²EC), originally scheduled to take place 28-30 April at London’s ExCel centre has been postponed. The event will now take place later this year from 1-3 September. In an email, the organisers said: “This decision has been made following consultation with the venue and key stakeholders, including the …

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The UK’s Defence and Security Accelerator (DASA) has released a call for rapid sanitising technology to speed up the time it takes to clean ambulances in-between carrying patients. Currently, it takes up to 45 minutes to sanitise an ambulance that has carried a Covid-19 patient. DASA says the ideal solution could be used outside of …

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In the US, the White House and the Senate have agreed an economic stimulus package worth more than $1.8 trillion to combat the economic fallout of Covid-19. Full details of the deal will not be published until later on Wednesday. However, it is expected to cprovide support to workers laid off due the virus and …

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Military planners from the UK’s Ministry of Defence (MOD) are assisting the NHS in the construction of a temporary hospital in London’s ExCel centre that could be used to house 4,000 patients. The exhibition centre was scouted by military planners and will open for its patients early next week. Initially, the emergency hospital called NHS …

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New Zealand has declared a state of national emergency over the Covid-19 outbreak as cases continue to rise. The National Emergency Management Agency announced that anyone “not working in essential services must stay at home and stop all interactions with others outside of your household.” Essential services will continue, including food and healthcare shops, however …

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