Diabetes finally gets attention it deserves — thanks to Covid-19
11 July 2021 - 00:00
Only TB kills more South Africans than diabetes, and only marginally so, but it’s taken a deadly pandemic to raise public awareness of a disease diagnosed in 4.6-million of us and millions more who don’t know they have it...
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