Contagion continues to run in India due to the coronavirus pandemic. The latest official bulletin speaks of 401,078 new cases ascertained in the last 24 hours (exceeding the quota of 400 thousand infections for the third consecutive day), with another 4,187 deaths, a new sad record. In the Asian giant, with a population of over 1.3 billion inhabitants, there are 21.9 million infections since the beginning of the pandemic and the death toll is just under 240 thousand.