The United Kingdom has registered the highest Covid-19 death toll in Europe. Since the outbreak of the global pandemic, more than 30,000 people have breathed their last.
The marginalization of the blacks and people from mixed ethnicities seems endless. London CNN’s new data reveals that black people in the UK are four times more likely to suffer and die from coronavirus that white people. The life of a large number of people of other ethnic groups also is jeopardized.
The Office for National Statistics as well underlines the above information. It clearly states that “black women are 4.3 times more likely to die with Covid-19 than white women, while black men are 4.2 more likely to die”.
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Asians also are not spared in this so-called research. The report equally points out that Pakistanis, Indians, Bangladeshis, and other mixed ethnicities had a “statistically significant raised risk of death”.
The Institute for Fiscal Studies’ analysis reveals the same – that people from black African backgrounds were 3.7 times more likely to lose their life from the global pandemic than white people.
Previous studies in April too highlighted the same examination. Reports in the United States echoed the same statistics. In fact, America has witnessed an excessively high death of African Americans from Coronavirus.
One thing is however certain. The report fails to clearly outline every factor behind this analysis. In regard to this, David Lammy, UK’s shadow justice secretary overtly declares these findings as “appalling”.
He further stresses to have such asymmetrical concept investigated. He says too that solid actions must be taken to protect not black people only but the whole humanity.
In an e-article dated 21st April 2020 Christine Ro asserts “even with a virus that doesn’t respect borders, vulnerability is spread unevenly.” One of the reasons that might explain this frightening investigation is income inequality.
In many majority-white nations, people from other ethnic and racial groups have very little access to economic resources, hence resulting in poor health outcomes.
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