Sign up Thank you for subscribing We have more newsletters Show me See our privacy noticeSir Lenny Henry has ­written an open letter urging black Brits to get a Covid jab amid fears some communities remain vulnerable. Around four in 10 elderly black people are unlikely to have had a jab. Overall, the odds of not having received a jab were 5.5 times greater for people from black African backgrounds and four times greater for black Caribbean backgrounds compared with white Brits. Sir Lenny, 62, enlisted support from actors Chiwetel Ejiofor and Thandie Newton, radio personality Trevor Nelson, ­football pundit Garth Crooks and author Malorie Blackman. We don’t want our elderly to continue having to shield and the sacrifices ofour doctors and nurses to have been in vain.

Source: Daily Mirror March 29, 2021 23:00 UTC