Diabetes patients at increased risk of severe disease, death from COVID-19, warns UN chief_china.org.cn – China.org.cn

UNITED NATIONS, Nov. 13 (Xinhua) — As the number of people with diabetes surges, many are at “increased risk of severe disease and death from COVID-19,” the UN chief said on Friday.
“Many efforts have been made to prevent and treat diabetes,” but the disease continues to rise rapidly in low and middle income countries, those “least well-equipped with the diagnostics, medicines, and knowledge to provide life-saving treatment,” said Secretary-General Antonio Guterres in his message for World Diabetes…

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