Delhi govt panel says Chikungunya not cause of death
The committee set up by the Delhi government to review the cases of death attributed to chikungunya has "ruled out" the disease as the primary cause of death. It attributed the deaths to "co-morbid conditions" in the patients. The committee, however, has reviewed only 20 of the 1,700 reported cases of the disease, including at least 15 deaths, till now.