oct 5, 2020 - Equality watchdog urged to investigate Covid-19 impact on BAME people

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"The mayor of London has called on the equality watchdog to urgently investigate whether the disproportionate impact of Covid-19 on people of black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds could have been prevented or mitigated.

Sadiq Khan’s intervention comes after figures showed that black people in the UK are more than four times more likely to die from coronavirus than white people.

In a letter to David Isaac, the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) chair, seen by the Guardian, Khan says the commission has a “moral responsibility” to carry out a wide-ranging investigation into the worse outcomes for BAME people that is not limited to the higher rates of deaths and critical illness."

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