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2020-05-26 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Coronaplague Roundup
Somalia Confirms 95 New COVID-19 Cases As Total Hits 1,689
[RADIOSHABELLE] The Somali health ministry on Monday confirmed 95 new COVID-19 cases, bringing the total tally of infections to 1,689.

Fawziya Abikar, health minister, said 31 people recovered from COVID-19, bringing the total number of people who have been discharged from hospitals to 235.

The minister said five patients succumbed to the disease, raising the total number of deaths to 66.

Somalia has taken urgent measures to counter the effects of COVID-19 and contain the spread of the virus, including closing schools, banning large gatherings, and suspending both international and domestic passenger flights.

Worldometers
Total Coronavirus Cases: 5,586,954

Closed Cases: 2,713,405
Deaths:
347,854 (13%)
Recovered:
2,365,551 (87%)

Active Cases: 2,873,549
Currently Infected Patients
2,820,382 (98%) in Mild Condition
53,167 (2%) Serious or Critical


Hackers tried to sabotage Israeli anti-coronavirus efforts — report
[IsraelTimes] Channel 12 news reports that among the cyber attacks on Israeli websites last week was an attempt to break into the computer system of institutes working to find a cure for the coronavirus.

According to the report, which does not cite a source, hackers attempted to break in, not to steal information, but to sabotage the research being done. It says the attempts were unsuccessful.

The report does not say what institutes were hacked. Israel’s military bio-defense institute is thought to be leading efforts for a vaccine, and has announced a possible breakthrough. A number of other Israeli bodies, both private and government-run are also doing research into how the disease develops and spreads in the hopes of stemming it.

Sudan coronavirus death toll rises to 382
[Sudan Tribune] Sudan on Monday reported 19 more coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague)
...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men...
deaths, bringing the country’s corpse count from the epidemic to 165, the federal health ministry said in a statement.

According to a daily news bulletin, the health authorities dated 23 May 2020 but released on Monday due to the Eid holidays, five death were recorded in Khartoum state, six in Gezira state, one in North Kordofan state, one in Gedaref state and six in North Darfur state.

Also, on Saturday, the authorities recorded new 192 confirmed cases of coronavirus, bringing the total number of infections in the country to 3820.

According to the report, 124 new cases were registered in Khartoum state, 30 Gaderef state, 7 in North Kordofan state, 11 in Sennar state, 11 West Kordofan and 2 in the Blue Nile state.

In comparison with neighbouring countries, Sudan comes after Egypt, which recorded (17825) cases, but it is ahead of Æthiopia (655), South Sudan (655), Chad (687), Libya (75) and Eritrea
...is run by the People's Front for Democracy and Justice (PFDJ), with about the amounts of democracy and justice you'd expect from a party with that name. National elections have been periodically scheduled and cancelled; none have ever been held in the country. The president, Isaias Afewerki, has been in office since independence in 1993 and will probably die there of old age...
(39).

The report said that 34 patients recovered from the respiratory disease bringing total recoveries to 458.


CDC warns rats are becoming more aggressive and cannibalizing each other as they struggle to find food amid restaurant closures
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] In New Orleans, viral videos have emerged of swarms of rats taking over roads and sidewalks in usually-bustling neighborhoods like the French Quarter - a sight local officials attributed to social distancing.

'What we have seen is these practices are driving our rodents crazy,' Mayor LaToya Cantrell said at a news conference in March.

"Oh Won't You Stay... Just a Little Bit Longer": Oxford researchers worried that COVID is now "disappearing" too FAST for a vaccine to be developed
[SkyNews] The University of Oxford's Jenner Institute and the Oxford Vaccine Group began developing a COVID-19 vaccine in January using a virus taken from chimpanzees.

But with the number of UK coronavirus cases dropping every day, there may not be enough people to test it on, according to the institute's director Professor Adrian Hill.

He told The Sunday Telegraph: "It's a race against the virus disappearing, and against time. We said earlier in the year that there was an 80% chance of developing an effective vaccine by September.

"But at the moment, there's a 50% chance that we get no result at all. We're in the bizarre position of wanting COVID to stay, at least for a little while."

Mink pass coronavirus to humans in the Netherlands
[DW] At least two people have caught the coronavirus from mink in the Netherlands, in probably the first mink-to-human transmission cases. The risk of infection outside mink farms is "negligible," Dutch officials said.
Posted by Fred 2020-05-26 00:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views ]  Top

#1 Netanyahu warns of second wave of coronavirus in Israel

Et tu Bibi?!?
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-05-26 01:56||   2020-05-26 01:56|| Front Page Top

#2 S&P: Israeli economy expected to 'absorb' coronavirus shock

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-05-26 02:02||   2020-05-26 02:02|| Front Page Top

#3 Oxford researchers worried that COVID is now "disappearing" too FAST for a vaccine to be developed

(a) Always thought vaccine is for healthy people.
(b) Try Brazil, limeys.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-05-26 04:28||   2020-05-26 04:28|| Front Page Top

#4 ...(c) The development not going so well?
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-05-26 04:29||   2020-05-26 04:29|| Front Page Top

#5 angel of death slacked off again yesterday in US
(lower death count on weekend, with local minimum Sunday, has been a feature for several weeks)

Deaths by day per Worldometer

May 19 1552
May 20 1403
May 21 1418
May 22 1293
May 23 1036
May 24 617
May 25 505
Posted by lord garth 2020-05-26 08:04||   2020-05-26 08:04|| Front Page Top

#6 Guess who's disappointed...
Posted by M. Murcek 2020-05-26 08:17||   2020-05-26 08:17|| Front Page Top

#7 Media and Dems hoping and praying for that "second wave". But those numbers tell it all, and who knows? Those numbers might even be inflated still.
Posted by Clem 2020-05-26 09:09||   2020-05-26 09:09|| Front Page Top

#8 Some rube is always saying "it's just starting." I hope his wife has stocked up on Depends™
Posted by M. Murcek 2020-05-26 09:21||   2020-05-26 09:21|| Front Page Top

#9 Washington State Counting Gunshot Victims Among Its Coronavirus Deaths
Posted by Frank G 2020-05-26 10:48||   2020-05-26 10:48|| Front Page Top

#10 S'il n'existait pas...
Posted by Lex 2020-05-26 11:39||   2020-05-26 11:39|| Front Page Top

#11 @ #9 That is incredible...and outright fraud. Disgusting. Gotta have a reason to inflate the numbers. Meanwhile, millions are unemployed because of this disgusting farce.
Posted by Clem 2020-05-26 12:26||   2020-05-26 12:26|| Front Page Top

#12 The Billy Jeff Clinton regime counted 25 year old drug soldier gang bangers as "child victims of gun violence," so this sort of intentional misrepresentation is not new. In Sweden, a newborn that never leaves the hospital is not counted as ever having been alive. Welcome to Gerbil Health Statistics Land™
Posted by M. Murcek 2020-05-26 15:05||   2020-05-26 15:05|| Front Page Top

#13 Now the New York Times and Politico are coming out with stories that show elite Democrats starting to panic over the economic devastation they've wrought as they see the red states starting to reopen while California and New York remain locked down.

Watch the narrative start changing as we get closer to the Democratic Convention.
Posted by Lex 2020-05-26 15:18||   2020-05-26 15:18|| Front Page Top

#14 It will be necessary to have huge wealth transfers from the working to support the stay at home mask binky crowd. Sort of like gerbil worming.
Posted by M. Murcek 2020-05-26 15:27||   2020-05-26 15:27|| Front Page Top

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