Showtime’s Your Honor will end after its upcoming season, series star Bryan Cranston said today in an interview on Dax Shepard’s Armchair Expert podcast. Filming on Season 2 has just started, with Joey Hartstone, who was a writer on Season 1, as new showrunner, Deadline has learned. Additionally, I hear Keith Machekanyanga, who recurred heavily as Lil Mo in the first installment, has been promoted to series regular for Season 2.
New Covid infection wave 'likely' in Scotland due to BA.4 and BA.5 virus variants
16.06.2022 - 11:55 / dailyrecord.co.uk
A new wave of coronavirus is looking likely in Scotland and the rest of the UK, a Scottish immunologist has warned.
The number of people estimated to have been infected with Covid has risen in the last week according to the Office for National Statistics’ (ONS) infection study.
It has been estimated that 124,000 were infected with the virus in Scotland in the week ending June 2 - which equates to one in 40 people, or 2.36 per cent of the population.
This is a rise on an estimate of 105,900 in the previous week.
There has also been an uptick in the number of people in hospital with Covid in Scotland. The latest Public Health Scotland data shows that 749 were receiving treatment for the virus as of June 12 - a rise from 637 the week previous.
It is understood that the rise in case estimates is down the BA.4 and BA.5 strains of the virus - both of which were identified as ‘variants of concern’ by the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA).
Professor Denis Kinane, an immunologist and founding scientist at Cignpost Diagnostics, claimed that the UK is staring down the barrel on a new of infection.
But the Omicron sub-variants are not isolated to the UK alone, as the professor explained to Edinburgh Live : “BA.4 and BA.5 were first detected in South Africa in January and February 2022, respectively, and since then have become the country's dominant variant. Portugal and Germany are also seeing cases rise and these are likely driven by these new variants."
But this does not necessarily mean people should be overly concerned due to vaccines and natural immunity.
He said: "While a new Covid wave is looking likely for the UK, this doesn’t necessitate serious concern. The BA.4 and BA.5 wave, despite being able to overcome immunity to
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