England to require ethnicity on death certificates to help tackle Covid-19 – The Guardian

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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