(ANSA) - LONDON, JANUARY 26 - The United Kingdom breaks through the threshold of 100,000 deaths due to Covid, the first country in Europe, according to the latest estimates of the Office for National Statistics (Ons, British equivalent of Istat) updated on January 15 and elaborated today by the media. The figure includes all cases in which coronavirus has been indicated on death certificates - since the start of the pandemic - as a cause or contributing cause of death.
And in total, to date, according to the BBC, the budget is 104,000. On the other hand, according to the official count common to other countries, which considers only those who died after a positive test, the total currently stops at 98,500. (HANDLE).