Inquiry announced into disproportionate impact of coronavirus on BAME communities

While black and minority ethnic people make up only 14% of the UK’s population, they account for 35% of all deaths from the disease

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An official inquiry is being launched to investigate why people from black and minority ethnic backgrounds appear to be disproportionately affected by coronavirus.

Early figures on the incidence of Covid-19 showed 35% of almost 2,000 patients in intensive care units were black or from another minority ethnic backgrounds, despite BAME people making up only 14% of the population, according to the last census.

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