Health
Covid mortality in England still higher for some ethnic minorities, study finds – The Guardian
People from Bangladeshi and Pakistani backgrounds faring worse than black people in second wave of pandemic
Evidence that ethnic minorities are at elevated risk of contracting and dying from Covid-19 compared with their white counterparts is well established. But a new sweeping analysis in England shows that between the first and second waves of the pandemic in 2020, death rates in black communities improved, but continued to remain high in people from Bangladeshi and Pakistani backgrounds.
The analysis which is yet to be peer-reviewed or published in a medical journal suggests that while the public health…
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