Health
England to require ethnicity on death certificates to help tackle Covid-19 – The Guardian
Government plans measures to help understand why minorities are more vulnerable
The government is to make the recording of ethnicity on death certificates in England mandatory in an effort to tackle the unequal impact of Covid-19 on people from minority ethnic groups.
A series of measures to better understand why people from ethnic minorities are more likely to contract Covid-19 and die as a result are due to be put in place, after the prime minister accepted recommendations from the governments Race Disparity Unit (RDU) advisory group.
Making the recording of ethnicity mandatory…
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