LONDON: The British Medical Association has urged the government the incidence of COVID-19 among members of minority communities reports of ten doctors dying from the infection in Britain were found to belong to minority groups.
According to a report published by in a national daily on Friday, the ten doctors who lost their lives battling the infection in the UK had origins from Asia, the Middle East and Africa.
“At face value, it seems hard to see how this can be random – to have the first 10 doctors to die of virus being of minority backgrounds,” said one of the doctors working in UK currently. “The minority population makes up about a third of those in intensive care for virus,” the doctor noted.
“There’s a disproportionate percentage of minority groups getting ill from the virus,” the doctor lamented. “If you add that to overcrowded and multi generational occupancies, the infections can be brought back home and spread to other members of the family.”
The overall death toll in the country has not been classified by ethnicity, but a recent research this week revealed that about 35 per cent of almost 2000 patients in intensive care units are non-white. The same report also says that most health professionals in key worker roles belong to minority origins.
