They reveal that people of Pakistani and Bangladeshi descent are less than half as likely to have been vaccinated as white people. The situation is even worse among the 500,000 people of Bangladeshi descent, with 4.7 per cent vaccinated by January 31. Coverage is also poor among black Britons, with 6.7 per cent vaccinated as of last Sunday. They wrote: ‘People of black African ethnicity in England are over twice as likely to die from this virus than white people... The same is also true of South Asian people.’

Source: The Nation February 07, 2021 03:02 UTC