A blood sugar test. Africa’s death rates from Covid-19 infections are significantly higher in patients with diabetes, a preliminary analysis by WHO says. PHOTO | FILE | NMG
Africa’s death rates from Covid-19 infections are significantly higher in patients with diabetes, a preliminary analysis by the WHO has shown, as the world marked diabetes day on November 14.
But to compound this problem, WHO disease investigators say, is the fact that many people living with diabetes are not even aware of it, because they are undiagnosed and are therefore susceptible to severe illness from the Covid virus and die from it.
