When Diego started going out again to meet friends he never expected to be among a growing number of young Mexicans hospitalised by a highly contagious Covid-19 variant driving another wave of infections.
"I let my guard down thinking that I wasn't going to catch it, but in the end I did," the 20-year-old student told AFP at a private clinic in a suburb north of Mexico City.
"This is no joke. It's a pretty cruel disease," said Diego, who did not want to give his full name.
He is one of 16 coronavirus patients being treated in the same hospital in Coacalco.
De jeunes Mexicains hospitalisés appellent à se méfier de la COVID-19
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