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Call for public inquiry into BAME death risk
More than 70 public figures are calling for a full independent public inquiry into coronavirus deaths among people from ethnic minority backgrounds.
The Office for National Statistics recently revealed that, in England and Wales, black men and women are nearly twice as likely to die with coronavirus as white people. More than 70 signatories, including author Malorie Blackman, playwright, Kwame Kwei-Armah, and Baroness Doreen Lawrence, have now written to Prime Minister Boris Johnson calling for more transparency on the issue.
A scientific review by Public Health England into the impact of the virus on frontline workers from ethnic minority backgrounds and the wider community is already under way, but the letter is urging for a full independent inquiry.
The Labour Party has announced its own review into coronavirus impact on black, Asian and ethnic minority communities, headed by Baroness Lawrence.
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