Report containing recommendations to protect ethnic minority groups from coronavirus has been drawn up for UK government, BBC learns
The already published PHE review found people of Bangladeshi heritage were dying at twice the rate of white Britons, while other black, Asian and minority ethnic groups had between 10% and 50% higher risk of death.
When questioned in the House of Commons last week, the Equalities Minister, Kemi Badenoch, said Public Health England"did not make recommendations because they were not able to do so" and she would be taking this work forward. But Raj Bhopal, an emeritus professor of public health, from the Usher Institute, at Edinburgh University, told BBC News:"Parliament had not been told the full truth."
He said:"The public has expressed a great deal of disappointment as well as the people who were part of this consultation, asking, 'Where have our voices gone?'""Otherwise, you've wasted their time, you've wasted your own time, you've wasted taxpayers money, and you've lost trust."
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