Day: 7 May 2021

Status update of Covid-19 cases worldwide

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Here we provide a daily update of the data available for select countries and jurisdictions as of May 7, 2021 at 7:00pm EST.

After logging another 17,550 new infections in the last 24-hours, Germany’s Covid-19 case count surpassed 3.5 million, with 89.3% of all cases recovered. Since yesterday, Covid-related deaths increased by 245, brining the total to just over 85,000 fatalities.

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Chernobyl, the alarm of Ukrainian scientists: “35 years later there is a risk of a new accident”

KIEV – 35 years after the disaster, Reactor 4 of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant seems to be “awakened”. And according to the scientists there is the risk of a new accident, albeit less serious than the one that occurred on the night of April 26, 1986 when the plant exploded, releasing radioactive clouds that also reached Europe and the eastern coast of North America. (more…)