With obesity and diabetes epidemic, Mexico braces for coronavirus

People walk on a street in Mexico City as Mexico braces for the impact of the fast-spreading coronavirus disease (COVID-19), March 24, 2020. REUTERS/Gustavo Graf

MEXICO CITY(Reuters) - Four of the six people who have died from coronavirus in Mexico so far had diabetes, raising alarm bells that a country with one of the world's highest rates of the condition may be more vulnerable than its relatively young average age might suggest.

The World Health Organisation has said people with diabetes and its related health complications are among those most vulnerable to severe cases of the highly contagious and sometimes deadly illness caused by the new coronavirus, along with the elderly.