(See 'Coronavirus: India, record 24h cases ...' at 8:25 am) ROME, AUG 13 - India, with its 47,033 deaths caused by the coronavirus since the beginning of the pandemic, overtook the United Kingdom today for number of deaths becoming the fourth country in the world in this sad ranking after the United States (166,027), Brazil (104,201) and Mexico (54,666): this is what emerges from the counts of Johns Hopkins University, according to which in the United Kingdom 46,791 people have died so far .
The situation, Srinivas Rajkum, secretary general of the Association of doctors in New Delhi, told the BBC, is very serious and the number of victims could continue to rise in the coming weeks, if not in the coming months, if the government does not intervene. (HANDLE).