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Just 30 guests are permitted to attend the funeral of the Queen's husband, Prince Philip due to the UK's strict COVID-19 restrictions. There is a long list of British royals on the guest list, as well as a few of the prince's German relatives.

The US Defence Department has confirmed that leaked photos and video of "unidentified aerial phenomena" taken in 2019 are indeed legitimate images of unexplained objects.

Photos and videos of triangle-shaped objects blinking and moving through the clouds were taken by Navy personnel, Pentagon spokeswoman Sue Gough said in a statement to CNN.

She also confirmed that photos of three unidentified flying objects – one "sphere" shaped, another "acorn" shaped and one characterised as a "metallic blimp" – were also taken by Navy personnel.

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"As we have said before, to maintain operations security and to avoid disclosing information that may be useful to potential adversaries, DOD does not discuss publicly the details of either the observations or the examinations of reported incursions into our training ranges or designated airspace, including those incursions initially designated as UAP," Ms Gough said.

She also said that the Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force, created in August to investigate UFO sightings observed by the military, has "included these incidents in their ongoing examinations."

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The Navy photos and videos were published by Mystery Wire and on Extraordinary Beliefs' website last week but had been circulating online since last year.

There have been "a number of reports of unauthorised and/or unidentified aircraft entering various military-controlled ranges and designated air space in recent years" the Navy said in 2019. Last year, the Pentagon released three videos showing "unidentified aerial phenomena" — clips that the US Navy had previously confirmed were real.

US intelligence agencies have been directed to give unclassified reports about UAP's to Congress in June.

A Florida driver has been recorded smashing through lowered traffic arms before jumping a rising drawbridge at speed.

Luckily, the driver made it through the airborne leap and landed safely on the other side – before continuing on and smashing through the lowered arms at the other end of the bridge.

Police are now seeking the driver of the SUV.

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The incident took place on Monday morning local time at Daytona Beach – incidentally, the home of the Daytona 500, an iconic NASCAR motor race.

Police told local media outlet Daytona Beach News Journal they believe they had identified the driver, but no arrests have yet been made.

Reports are emerging of Brazilian health workers forced to intubate patients without the aid of sedatives, after weeks of warnings that hospitals and state governments risked running out of critical medicines.

One doctor at the Albert Schweitzer municipal hospital in Rio de Janeiro told the Associated Press that for days health workers diluted sedatives to make their stock last longer.

Once it ran out, nurses and doctors had to begin using neuromuscular blockers and tying patients to their beds, the doctor said.

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“You relax the muscles and do the procedure easily, but we don’t have sedation,” said the doctor, who agreed to discuss the sensitive situation only if not quoted by name.

“Some try to talk, resist. They’re conscious.”

Lack of required medicines is the latest pandemic problem to befall Brazil, which is experiencing a brutal COVID-19 outbreak that has flooded the nation’s intensive care units.

The daily death count is averaging about 3000, accounting for a quarter of deaths globally and making Brazil the epicentre of the pandemic.

“Intubation kits” include anaesthetics, sedatives and other medications used to put severely ill patients on ventilators.

The press office of Rio city's health secretariat said in an email that occasional shortages at the Albert Schweitzer facility are due to difficulties obtaining supplies on the global market and that “substitutions are made so that there is no damage to the assistance provided.”

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It didn't comment on the need to tie patients to beds.

The newspaper O Globo on Thursday reported similar ordeals in several other hospitals in the Rio metropolitan region, with people desperately calling other facilities seeking sedatives for their loved ones.

It’s unclear whether the problem seen in Rio remains an isolated case, but others are sounding the alarm about impending shortages.

Sao Paulo state's health secretary, Jean Carlo Gorinchteyn, said at a news conference Wednesday that the situation was dire in the hospitals of Brazil's most-populous state.

On Thursday, more than 640 hospitals were on the verge of collapse, with shortages possible within days, officials said.

“We need the federal government's support,” Mr Gorinchteyn said.

“This is not a necessity for Sao Paulo; it is a necessity for the whole country.”

His state's health officials sent nine requests for intubation medication to the health ministry over the past 40 days, according to a statement Wednesday.

Its last delivery was enough to cover just six per cent of monthly needs in the state’s public health network, officials told AP.

Federal health minister Marcelo Queiroga, who took over the post last month, said Wednesday that a shipment of sedatives was expected to arrive in Brazil “in the next 10 days.”

It is the result of a contract signed with the Pan American Health Organisation.

He said two separate efforts to acquire medications on the international market are underway “to end this day-to-day struggle.”

For many weeks, the ministry has also been facing logistical constraints on getting oxygen delivered to hospitals across the country.

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Mr Queiroga said it remains "a daily concern.″

A more contagious coronavirus variant, known as P.1, has been spreading across Brazil this year.

It may also be more aggressive than the original strain, and health workers have reported patients requiring far more oxygen than last year.

The private sector has stepped up to help address some of the supply shortfall.

A group of seven large companies donated 3.4 million doses of intubation drugs — enough for the management of 500 beds for six weeks — to the health ministry.

A first batch of 2.3 million was scheduled to arrive from China late Thursday at Sao Paulo's international airport and would be distributed to states with critical shortages, the ministry said in an emailed response to AP questions about supply bottlenecks.

Last month, the health ministry requisitioned intubation medications from laboratories, reportedly as a means to distribute to the neediest hospitals.

That has caused others facilities’ stocks to dwindle, said Edson Rogatti, director of an association of more than 2000 hospitals nationwide.

“If we run out, the health sector will be in chaos,” Mr Rogatti said on Globo News TV.

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Shortages aren’t limited to the public sector.

Brazil’s private hospital association published a survey Thursday in which nine of 71 institutions reported having supplies for five days or less.

About half said they had enough for a week.

Private facilities are looking to import medications from India, but still need regulatory approval, the association told AP.

The city of Itaiopolis in southern Santa Catarina state this week reported shortages of both sedatives and oxygen.

Neighbouring Rio Grande do Sul state also reported supplies running out.

“The situation is desperate,” Rio Grande do Sul’s health secretary, Arita Bergmann, said in a statement Thursday.

“We urgently need the health ministry to replenish hospitals’ stocks, or else intubated patients can wake up without medication, and that would be terrible.”

Defence Minister Peter Dutton says the spectacle of dancers performing at a naval commissioning won't happen again, after footage of the event went viral.

The dancers were filmed performing ahead of the official ceremony to commission the $2 billion HMAS Supply.

"It wasn't a good look," Mr Dutton told Today.

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"It is not going to happen again … you won't see that at a ship launch again."

Video posted on the ABC's social media channels appeared to show Governor-General David Hurley, Chief of Navy Michael Noonan and Chief of Defence Angus Campbell as part of the audience during the routine.

However, a Defence spokesperson later said the dancers had actually performed ahead of the official ceremony, before the Governor-General had arrived.

General Hurley's office also issued a statement confirming the same.

"The presentation of the video to suggest otherwise was disappointing," the statement read.

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The dance troupe, 101 Doll Squadron, also slammed the ABC edit, calling it "creepy".

"We are very disappointed at the ABC's deceptive editing of their video piece which cut to guests and dignitaries who were not in attendance and shooting from angles which could not be seen by the audience," the troupe said in a statement.

"We found this very creepy and reflects more on the ABC's camera operator and their need to sexualise these women and their dance piece for their own gratification."

The troupe said members had come under attack online, and has deleted its social media pages.

The ABC apologised yesterday over the social media edit.

"The video should not have been edited in that way and the ABC apologises to the Governor-General and the Chief of Navy, and to viewers, for this error," the broadcaster said in a statement.

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