COVID-19:WHY ARE SO MANY BAME PATIENTS DYING FROM THE DISEASE?

The COVID-19 pandemic has had a global impact, but its effects have hit some groups harder than others.

In the United Kingdom, more than 40,000 people have so far died from COVID-19, with people from black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) communities disproportionately affected.

A report published on 19 June by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) found that black men are more than three times as likely to die from COVID-19 than white men, while black women are almost 2.5 times as likely to die than white women. People