Ministers under fire over delayed release of BAME Covid-19 review
Labour attacks ‘unacceptable’ wait for publication of report due at end of last month
Ministers have been accused of not taking seriously the threat posed to black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) Britons by Covid-19, after the release of an official review of the issue was delayed.
The report was commissioned to analyse how factors such as ethnicity, obesity and gender can affect people’s vulnerability to Covid-19 but has already missed the publication deadline set for the end of May. Health bosses sought “insight” after it was reported that deaths among BAME communities were disproportionately high.
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