‘Eat Out scheme triggered higher deaths in Pakistani, Bangladeshi groups’
July 21, 2021
LONDON: Chancellor Rishi Sunak’s Eat Out to Help Out scheme last summer may have triggered a rise in COVID-19 related deaths among Bangladeshi and Pakistani communities, a scientist has said, foreign media reported.
Since more people from the Bangladeshi and Pakistani communities in the UK work in small restaurants and eating joints, Professor Parvez Haris of De Montfort University said the government subsidised Eat Out to Help Out scheme may have “backfired” for these groups, who bore the brunt of high Covid-19 infections and more deaths during the second wave as compared to whites and other communities.