Doctors plea to give high-risk ethnic minority health workers PPE at all times amid alarming Covid-19 death rates among black and Asian NHS staff BIDA says staff must be protected, even when treating non-coronavirus patients Britons of black African heritage are three-and-a-half times more likely to die NHS England chief has since written to all trusts … Read more
Black and Asian Britons are two-and-a-half times more likely to die from coronavirus than whites, analysis of NHS records has suggested. An Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) report found the death rate among Black African Britons was three times that of the white British population. The respected think-tank also revealed fatalities among Pakistanis were 2.7 … Read more
Nearly three quarters of NHS staff who have died from coronavirus are from black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds. Latest figures show that 111 health and social care workers have been killed by the virus, and the overwhelming majority of these have been from black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) communities. People from such backgrounds … Read more
A senior NHS nurse has claimed that healthcare professionals from Black Asian and Ethnic Minority groups (BAME) are having to work on coronavirus wards more than their white colleagues. It comes as the British Medical Association launched an inquiry into why people from BAME backgrounds are more susceptible to such respiratory conditions. Carol Cooper, who … Read more
Areas with large ethnic minority populations make up more than three quarters of England’s coronavirus hotspots, a report has revealed. But numbers coming from Muslim communities in areas which could be expected to be hard-hit are low, and cultural habits may be protecting England’s Muslims from the fast-spreading disease. That’s according to a report by Professor … Read more
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