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REGIONAL. NATIONAL & INTERNATIONAL NEWS INTERVIEWS & FEATURES
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Why the government still does not provide BAME Britons protection from coronavirus?
More than a third of coronavirus intensive care patients are from ethnic minorities. A third of coronavirus patients in intensive care...
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UK BAME groups deal with more barriers in avoiding coronavirus
Runnymede Trust finds employment, reliance on public transport and crowded households are all risk factors. People from black, Asian and...
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South Africa destabilised by inequality and poverty in COVID-19 response
When coronavirus patients started arriving at South Africa’s government-run Thelle Mogoerane Hospital, workers scrambled to set up...
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Tests for COVID-19 for Brazil descendants of escaped slaves
Escaped slaves in Brazil seeking to live freely often set up communities called quilombos where their former owners could not find them....
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Obesity increases risks of death from the pandemic, especially for BAME people says the government
People who are obese or overweight are at increased risk of death or severe illness from COVID-19, a report by Public Health England...
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'Inhumane' migrant fruit-picker camps denounced by UN in Spain after fires
The United Nations official censured Spanish authorities for allowing seasonal strawberry pickers to live in “inhumane” and potentially...
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Hundreds of Afghan students took the university entrance test on a huge lowland
Not even Covid-19 and none of the difficulties that the pandemic brought can stop the craving for knowledge and the desire to give...
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Diversity in clinical trials for COVID-19 vaccine
A group of physicians and scientists last week urged the American government to include Black, Latino and indigenous Americans in the...
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