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Sir Keir Starmer has appointed Baroness Doreen Lawrence as Labour’s race relations adviser
Baroness Doreen Lawrence will lead a evaluate into the impression of coronavirus on black, Asian and minority ethnic communities, the Labour Occasion says.
The campaigner and mom of murdered teenager Stephen Lawrence has been appointed as Labour’s race relations adviser by chief Sir Keir Starmer.
The Labour peer will study why the virus seems to disproportionately impression these from ethnic minority backgrounds.
The federal government has additionally commissioned an investigation into the problem.
The Intensive Care Nationwide Audit and Analysis Centre discovered that 34% of greater than 4,800 critically-ill sufferers with Covid-19 recognized as black, Asian or minority ethnic.
That is regardless of solely 14% of individuals in England and Wales being from ethnic minority backgrounds, in response to the 2011 census.
The launch of Labour’s evaluate on Friday might be attended by Labour peer Baroness Lawrence, Sir Keir and Labour’s shadow secretary of state for girls and equalities, Marsha de Cordova.
Different attendees embody Muslim Council of Britain’s common secretary Harun Khan, Operation Black Vote’s director Lord Simon Woolley, Royal School of Nursing deputy president Yvonne Coghill and the Sikh Community’s Jas Khatkar.
Talking concerning the authorities’s evaluate at a Downing Avenue press briefing, Professor Chris Whitty, the UK Chief Medical Adviser, stated: “It is completely essential that we discover out which teams are most in danger in order that we can assist to guard them.”
However he stated that there’s presently no conclusive proof to point out that coronavirus poses an even bigger threat to folks from ethnic minority backgrounds.
“This isn’t but clear by way of ethnic minorities and we have to take a look at this extra rigorously,” he stated.