A paper due to be published in the medical journal Lancet has found that South Asian people are the most likel…Read More
LONDON: A paper due to be published in the medical journal Lancet has found that South Asian people are the most likely to die from Covid-19 after being admitted to hospital in Britain.
The report concluded that ethnicity must be taken into account in Britain when prioritising who gets a vaccine if one becomes available. “South Asians are over-represented in frontline key worker and public-interacting occupations, and guidance and policies should take this factor into account,” the report said.
The study, titled “Ethnicity and Outcomes from Covid-19”, the largest of its type in the world, shows South Asians who are hospitalised with the deadly virus are 20% more likely to die than whites, and 18% of