after revealing cancer scare when fans spotted her surgery scar Love Island's Faye Winter cosies up to boyfriend Teddy Soares for sizzling shoot. Recent board papers from University College Hospital London state: ‘Patients in ICU are mostly unvaccinated.’ The figures chime with assessments by hospital bosses about their sickest patients in this wave. Overall, the proportion of Covid-related deaths among England’s Asian communities, who make up 7.5 per cent of the population, has risen from 7.2 per cent in the winter wave to 10.4 per cent in this wave.īlack Britons (of Caribbean, African or other heritage, who together comprise 3.3 per cent of the population) also account for a growing share of Covid-related deaths, rising from 2.4 per cent in the winter wave to 5.0 per cent this summer. That proportion has doubled to 4.5 per cent in the current wave. During the winter wave they accounted for 2.2 per cent of Covid-related deaths. They make up two per cent of the population. Reasons include concerns among Muslims – dismissed by religious leaders – that the vaccines are not ‘halal’ (meaning allowed under Islamic law) lack of trust among black communities in health authorities and reliance on social media which can be skewed towards ‘anti-vaxxer’ content.Īmong those hit hardest so far in this summer’s wave are England’s Pakistani communities, who have some of the lowest vaccination rates.
Numerous reports have found that people from South Asian and black backgrounds are less likely to have been vaccinated than their white counterparts Only 34 per cent of black British adults under 30 have been vaccinated, compared to 62 per cent of 18-to-29-year-olds as a whole. New figures from Oxford University’s ‘Open Safely’ data project, based on GP records, show that 94 per cent of white over-50s have had one dose.īut only 86 per of South Asians over 50 have been jabbed, while the figure for black Britons over 50 is 70 per cent. Numerous reports have found that people from South Asian and black backgrounds are less likely to have been vaccinated than their white counterparts. When you do, if you haven’t had your vaccine yet, or been naturally infected with the virus before, your risk of dying of Covid is just as great as it was last year.’ ‘It’s a grave reminder that if you haven’t been vaccinated, you should, as you will get Covid at some point in the future. Professor Paul Hunter, of the University of East Anglia, said: ‘You don’t have to be an epidemiologist to predict that the proportion of Covid deaths would increase in ethnic minorities, where vaccination rates have been lower. Last night, a leading expert said it was highly probable lower vaccination rates in ethnic groups had resulted in Covid deaths that could have been prevented.
The figures are likely to underestimate the number of Covid deaths in minority communities, since in almost one in ten cases ethnicity is not recorded. Meanwhile, the proportion of Covid-related deaths accounted for by England’s white majority, who make up 86 per cent of the population, has fallen from 80 per cent over the winter to 72 per cent now. Last night, a leading expert said it was highly probable lower vaccination rates in ethnic groups had resulted in Covid deaths that could have been prevented
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