Professor Fenton says ministers must understand how contextual issues are driving the excess risk amongst the BAME community.
"Some of the structural issues, like racism, discrimination, stigma, distrust, fair, these are real issues that are challenging for the communities and are seen as underpinning some of the disparities we see for COVID."What do we do with this learning and where do we go next? I think of pace and impact, we are coming out of the first phase of the epidemic, we need to make sure our communities are resilient and prepared and learn the lessons for a second wave in the autumn.
Prof Fenton's analysis was sent to the government with further recommendations which were not published alongside the report last Tuesday leading toA spokesperson from the Governments Equality Office told Sky News:"Everything that was due to be published was published last week, the minister, Kemi Badenoch, is taking forward work to fill in some of the gaps and judge how best to tackle the various inequalities.
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