Russia unveils McDonald’s substitute: ‘Tasty and that’s it’

Covid-19 has certainly not gone away and we're currently in the middle of another surge with rising case numbers and all the disruption and illness that brings with it. We spoke to immunologist Prof Christine Loscher from DCU to get her take on the current surge, why we should expect more waves in the coming months and how we should be dealing with them.

ALSO READ: Your sore throat can determine if you have contracted Covid-19. Here's how to understand Since April, EU health agencies have recommended a second booster only for those older than 80 and the most vulnerable.

The number of people with Covid-19 in hospital has risen to more than 1,000 for the first time since April.

Lorraine Kelly, 62, has announced this morning that Carol Vorderman will be presenting her breakfast show after Covid "finally got me".The presenter reassured her fans that she wasn't "too bad", as she shared the news that she would be absent from her show for the foreseeable.Lorraine, sadly warned her 707,600 Twitter followers: "Well the Covid has finally got me and I tested positive at the weekend."Thanks to the vaccine it’s not too bad and I hope to be back at work very soon."Huge thanks to @carolvorders who will be hosting @lorraine until I’m back."Many social media users rushed to the comments to share their sadness as she misses her ITV show, while also wishing her well.Mooncaz said: "Aww poor you Lorraine! Hope you're ok and it's not too severe with the vaccines helping."Thank goodness!! Get Well Soon!!"AdmiralSlogs added: "Sorry to hear that Lorraine.Take good care of yourself - your show is in good hands with Carol."Christhine8001 commented: "Hope you feel better soon.

PHILADELPHIA - FOX 29's Sue Serio is giving the Independence Day forecast a 10 out of 10. Forecasters say the day will be full of sun and warm temperatures. Conditions are expected to stay dry and perfect for Fourth of July fireworks across the Delaware Valley. RELATED: Fourth of July 2022 guide: Where and when to watch fireworks across the Delaware ValleyTemperatures will begin in the mid and low 50s to the low 60s Monday before rising to the 80s throughout the day. Looking ahead, a change in the direction of the wind will cause humidity to return to the area Tuesday. Pop up rain and storms will also pass through the Delaware Valley on Tuesday. ____SEVEN-DAY FORECASTMONDAY: Independence Day. High: 88TUESDAY: PM storm chance.

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Twitter Inc TWTR.N has hired U.S. law firm Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz LLP as it prepares to sue Elon Musk and force him to complete the $44 billion acquisition of the social media company, according to people familiar with the matter.Musk, the chief executive officer of Tesla TSLA.O, on Friday terminated his deal, saying Twitter had failed to provide information about fake accounts on the platform, after which Twitter’s chairman, Bret Taylor, vowed a legal fight.

AP report, the quickly changing Covid-19 virus has spawned yet another super contagious omicron mutant that’s worrying scientists as it spreads through India and in other countries, including the United States.  “Scientists say the variant, called BA.2.75, may be able to spread rapidly and get around immunity from vaccines and previous infection. It’s unclear whether it could cause more serious disease than other omicron variants, including the globally prominent BA.5," the report said.  Commenting on the new virus, Matthew Binnicker, director of clinical virology at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota has said, “it’s still really early on for us to draw too many conclusions.

Crude oil prices declined on Monday shedding initial gains as several Chinese cities imposed fresh restrictions amid rising Covid cases. The commercial city of Shanghai is also gearing up for another round of mass testing after detecting a new subvariant of Covid -- Omicron BA.5.2.1. At 12.07 pm, the September contract of Brent on the Intercontinental Exchange was trading at $105.65 per barrel, lower by 1.28% from its previous close.

Steve Burton spoke about leaving General Hospital during an interview with Deadline that was shared on Friday.The 52-year-old performer, who previously portrayedJason Morgan in the long-running soap opera series, remained open about dropping out of the program and expressed that he was optimistic about his future.The actor was previously dismissed from the camera in November of last year after refusing to comply with the show's COVID-19 vaccination mandate. Opening up:Steve Burton spoke about leaving General Hospital during an interview with Deadline that was shared on FridayBurton expressed that, although he was not happy about leaving General Hospital, he understood that he had to move on.He stated that 'the circumstance was tough and you know, that's just the way it is.' The Last Castle cast member made a point of noting that he was glad to have been a part of the show's story.'I'll always be grateful for my time there. It was my family for so long.

Macau has shut all its casinos for the first time in more than two years, sending shares in gaming firms tumbling as authorities struggle to contain the worst coronavirus outbreak yet in the world's biggest gambling hub.

June 29 in the pre-print server SocArXiv, came days after the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling to overturn Roe v.

Settlement of health insurance claims of senior citizens takes more time because they often fail to promptly intimate to the insurance companies about their illness and treatment post hospitalisation, as per a survey conducted by a leading insurance brokerage firm SecureNow. According to the SecureNow survey, it takes a week longer for settlement of health insurance claims of senior citizens than those below 60 years of age.

Covid vaccine have been administered in the country so far under the nationwide vaccination drive. India's Covid-19 tally had crossed the 20-lakh mark on August 7, 2020, 30 lakh on August 23, 40 lakh on September 5 and 50 lakh on September 16.

reducing COVID-19 severity. “Due to these direct and indirect impacts of fasting on infectious disease outcomes, it is hypothesised that periodic fasting is associated with lower COVID-19 severity in people infected by SARS-CoV-2," says the study. Fasting reduces the cytokine cascade during periods of dietary restriction, promotes autophagy, and changes the metabolic source of energy from glucose to lipids, especially by raising the levels of circulating free fatty acids like linoleic acid.

Hells Angels crime boss Maurice Boucher, known also as “Mom” Boucher, has died at the age of 69 in prison from natural causes.According to Corrections Canada, Boucher, a notorious longtime Hells Angels gang leader and one of the more known criminals in Quebec history, died Sunday after a long battle with throat cancer.He died while incarcerated at the palliative care ward of a correctional health-care institution affiliated with the Archambault prison in Sainte-Anne-des-Plaines, Que., where he had been serving consecutive life sentences for the last 20 years.Boucher was a reputed organized crime boss, murderer, drug trafficker, outlaw biker and former leader of the Hells Angels’ Quebec chapter.In 2002, he was convicted of weapons and assault charges, conspiracy to murder, attempted murder, and two counts of first-degree murder after ordering the killing of two Quebec prison officers who were chosen at random in an effort to chill the Quebec Justice system.He received a life sentence with no possibility of parole for at least 25 years. He was imprisoned at one of Canada’s few supermax prisons.He had been battling cancer for seven years and was transferred to palliative care on June 10.

Canada’s health-care system is currently in a crisis, says Linda Silas, president of the Canadian Federation of Nurses union.“It’s almost like health employers don’t care or don’t know what to do,” she said during The Roy Green Show. “We are very concerned as health-care workers.

New Delhi: India recorded about 16,678 new covid cases and 26 deaths due to the infection in the last 24 hours. Active caseload currently stands at 1,30,713 in the country. In the last two years, 42983162 covid cases and around 525454 fatalities have been reported due to covid so far.

Bank of Canada will hike its key interest rate by three-quarters of a percentage point on Wednesday as inflation rages on globally.In Canada, inflation hit a 39-year-high of 7.7 per cent in May — well above the two per cent target rate central banks typically aim for.The Bank of Canada raised its key interest rate by half a percentage point on June 1, bringing it to 1.5 per cent. Since then, it has signalled a willingness to move in a more aggressive direction.“We may need to take more interest rate steps to get inflation back to target.

Philadelphia police investigate an apparent road rage incident that led to a chase, shooting and fiery crash. FRANKFORD - Philadelphia police are searching for the driver of a Toyota Camry as they investigate a chase, shooting and multi-vehicle crash.Officials said the incident began Sunday, a little before 2 p.m.

Today we are reporting 8,395 community cases, 689 current hospitalisations, and 17 deaths.

PALM BEACH, Fla. - A Florida man was shot in the head by authorities but survived the incident, officials said, after he allegedly took his social worker hostage and sexually assaulted her for 15 hours.Tzvi Allswang, 20, sustained severe head injuries but is expected to survive. He was subsequently booked into the Palm Beach County Jail on Wednesday, police said, after medical treatment.According to a probable cause affidavit obtained by Fox News, the victim told police she arrived at Allwang's residence around 6:30 p.m.

YUMA, Ariz. - The story of "Baby Holly" has made national headlines recently, and there’s a strong Arizona connection to the woman found alive and well more than 40 years after being separated from her murdered parents.Their killings are still unsolved, and authorities say a cult could be linked to the crimes.The beginning of Holly Clouse’s life is a mystery, but investigators know part of her life took place in the desert.Donna Casasanta is Holly’s biological grandmother."A nightmare. It was something that was on our mind constantly and I'm wondering what happened to her," Casasanta said.For more than 40 years, she had no clue where Holly or her parents could be."Every time the phone rang, I think, maybe this, that … you don't want them to be dead, mind you, but yet you want to lay it to rest, you want to find out what happened," Casasanta said.In the late 70s, her son Harold Dean Clouse Jr.

Sign with logo at the headquarters of car-sharing technology company Uber in the South of Market (SoMa) neighborhood of San Francisco, California, with red vehicle visible in the background parked on Market Street, October 13, 2017. (Photo by Smith C WASHINGTON (AP) - As Uber aggressively pushed into markets around the world, the ride-sharing service lobbied political leaders to relax labor and taxi laws, used a "kill switch'' to thwart regulators and law enforcement, channeled money through Bermuda and other tax havens and considered portraying violence against its drivers as a way to gain public sympathy, according to a report released Sunday.The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, a nonprofit network of investigative reporters, scoured internal Uber texts, emails, invoices and other documents to deliver what it called "an unprecedented look into the ways Uber defied taxi laws and upended workers' rights.''The documents were first leaked to the British newspaper The Guardian, which shared them with the consortium.In a written statement, Uber spokesperson Jill Hazelbaker acknowledged "mistakes'' in the past and said CEO Dara Khosrowshahi, hired in 2017, had been "tasked with transforming every aspect of how Uber operates ...

PHOENIX - On July 6, Arizona Governor Doug Ducey signed into law a bill that makes it illegal to record law enforcement within 8 feet (about 2.4 meters).Under the new law, it is a misdemeanor if someone keeps recording, after getting a verbal warning to stop. There are, however, some exceptions to the law, including if the person recording is the one being questioned by police.While supporters say the law is meant to protect law enforcement from harm or distraction, critics say the law is unconstitutional, and does nothing to enhance transparency.The original proposal from Rep.

LONG ISLAND, N.Y. - Beaches on Long Island, in New York, are on heightened alert after officials say a shark bit a lifeguard who was playing a shark bite victim in a training drill.It’s the second time in a week.The 17-year-old lifeguard is okay and needed five stitches on his ankle.Officials say New Yorkers aren’t the only ones who should beware of sharks this summer.Shark sightings have increased as the ocean waters warm. There have been 40 reports of shark attacks around the world in 2022.

Philadelphia police investigate a shooting that left a 45-year-old man in critical condition after he was shot multiple times in Carroll Park. CARROLL PARK - A 45-year-old man is in critical condition after he was shot multiple times in Carroll Park.Philadelphia police in the 19th District responded to the 1400 block of North 53rd Street early Sunday morning, around 2 a.m., on the report of shots fired, according to officials.The officers arrived to find the 45-year-old victim suffering from gunshot wounds to the elbow, leg and buttocks.MORE HEADLINES:Medics rushed him to Penn Presbyterian Medical Center where he was placed in critical condition.Police are actively investigating a motive into the shooting.

FUYANG, CHINA - JUNE 26, 2022 - Photo taken on June 26, 2022 shows US dollars and bitcoin in Fuyang, Anhui Province, China. (Photo credit should read CFOTO/Future Publishing via Getty Images) MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - When the Houston Firefighters Relief and Retirement Fund bought $25 million in cryptocurrencies, with the fund’s chief investment officer touting their potential, retired fire Capt. Russell Harris was concerned.Harris, 62, has attended the funerals of 34 firefighters killed in the line of duty.

Children play with their father in their backyard. (Mark Leffingwell / Digital First Media / Boulder Daily Camera / Getty Images) "There are, in the United States today, somewhere between 60,000 and 65,000 square miles of lawn," said Ted Steinberg, the Adeline Barry Davee professor of history at Case Western Reserve University and author of "American Green: the Obsessive Quest for the Perfect Lawn.""If you take all that lawn and you put it all together, you get a state about the size of Florida."Lawns have a long history, with names such as George Washington and Thomas Jefferson having their own lawns, according to Steinberg.However, lawns in their modern iteration are a relatively recent invention and one that rose to dominance over three different periods in history.Advertisement for a lawn mower, featuring a young woman pushing the mower, ca 1885.

PHILADELPHIA - Police say an afternoon shooting left a teenage boy injured in North Philadelphia on Sunday.The 15-year-old was reportedly shot one time in the knee on the 3100 block of Broad Street just before 1 p.m.He is in stable condition after walking into Temple University Hospital, according to police.No arrest has been made, and no weapon recovered.

PHILADELPHIA - An appeals court has ordered a new trial for a New Jersey man convicted in a stabbing death shortly after the Philadelphia Eagles won the Super Bowl in 2018.The court cited an assistant prosecutor's repeatedly calling the defendant a liar and also cited errors in the judge's instructions to the jury.Supreme Life, 60, of Lumberton was sentenced to 20 years after he was convicted in Burlington County in March 2019 of passion provocation manslaughter in the death of Moriah Walker, 26, of Brooklyn, N.Y., and the attempted murder of another New York man.Life, formerly known as Charles Hoskins, testified that as people were outside celebrating the Eagles’ February 2018 win, he teased his son, a Dallas Cowboys fan, and his son responded with an epithet about the Eagles. He said two New York men leaving a nearby party overheard the remark and attacked his son, and he acted in self-defense.During the trial, Life acknowledged having lied in a statement to police, and the appeals court said that was fair game for prosecutors to point out.

Ukraine‘s energy and foreign ministers are condemning the decision by the Canadian government to allow Germany to return controversial turbines being serviced in Canada to Russia‘s Gazprom.In a statement published on the Ukrainian government’s energy ministry website Sunday afternoon, the ministers said they were “deeply disappointed” by Canada’s decision and urged the government to reverse it. In the statement, they added that returning the turbine would amount to adjusting the sanctions imposed on Moscow “to the whims of Russia.”Gazprom has blamed the turbines for its decision to halve the flow of gas to Germany, which is heavily dependent on Russian natural gas and recently declared an “alarm stage” over looming gas shortages.

Whale washes up in Cape May County. (Grassy Sound Marina)CAPE MAY COUNTY, N.J. - A dead humpback whale has been found close to shore in New Jersey on Sunday, prompting a response from local and state emergency crews.The whale's body could be seen caught under a pier near Wildwood in a Facebook photo posted by Grassy Sound Marina.New Jersey State Marine Police were on the scene, waiting for the Coast Guard and Marine Mammal Stranding Center, according to the post."A 25-foot juvenile humpback whale.

Novak Djokovic shared an controversial video that suggested the coronavirus pandemic was caused by 5G. Jelena Djokovic shared a video at the beginning of the pandemic when so many things were still unknown about the virus that suggested that the entire pandemic was a result of 5G.

ATLANTA - Passengers aboard a Spirit Airlines flight from Tampa to Atlanta Sunday morning are safe after the plane caught fire during the landing process, airport officials said.Video shows flames and smoke coming from underneath Spirit Airlines flight 383 after it landed at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport.According to Spirit Airlines, a brake overheated upon landing at the airport around 9:45 a.m., causing a small fire. First responders were quickly able to extinguish the flames.

The Ukrainian cabinet approved a resolution on Friday to bar Russian citizens from entering Ukraine without a visa.

It was “unacceptable” for a Canadian official to have attended Russia Day celebrations at the country’s embassy in Canada, foreign affairs minister Melanie Joly said on Sunday.

KYIV, Ukraine — As the Russian army made its move on Kyiv in late February, the Ukrainian defences enlisted a drone pilot to pinpoint a column of military vehicles approaching the capital from the west.