Bangladeshi people are twice as much at risk of dying with coronavirus than the UK's white British population, a key study into how the deadly virus affects the country's BAME communities has found.
Public Health England has published a review which has confirmed that black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) people are more likely to die from Covid-19.
It found that people of Bangladeshi ethnicity had around twice the risk of death than people of white British ethnicity, while people of Chinese, Indian, Pakistani, other Asian, Caribbean and black ethnicity had between 10 per cent and 50 per cent higher risk of death.
The findings were based on analysis of survival among confirmed Covid-19 cases accounting for the effect of sex, age, deprivation and region.
The Public Health England review into disparities around the risk of coronavirus identified age as the biggest factor.
Among those diagnosed with Covid-19, people who were 80 or older were 70 times more likely to die than those under 40, the review found.
And it said working age men (aged 20-64) with confirmed coronavirus were twice as likely to die as women.
The Public Health England review was launched last month aimed at analysing how factors such as ethnicity can impact people’s health outcomes from Covid-19.
According to further data from the Office for National Statistics, black men and women are more than four times more likely to suffer a coronavirus-related death than white people.
