New Delhi, June 17 -- As the deaths linked to Coronavirus cross 100 on Monday, a government official has asserted that most of the deaths have been reported in patients who were hospitalised for some 'chronic or acute condition that may not be directly related to Covid-19'.

"The number of cases may have seen a slight surge in the past few weeks, but we are keeping an eye on the rate of hospitalisation and death, which is low across the country. Most of the deaths are in people who were hospitalised for some chronic or acute condition that may not be directly related to Covid-19, but as a protocol gets documented as Covid death," the official was quoted as saying by Hindustan Times.

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