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Mr Smith is a 59-year-old Romany Gypsy employed in the learning disability care sector for over 30 years, including managing several different care services.
He is an Independent Advisor for Minority Ethnic Groups with the West Mercia Police Service, and is writing his first novel.
Why do you think so much racism is directed at the Traveller community?
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South Asians in England at greater risk in second COVID wave, new study finds
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Last Updated: May 01, 2021, 03:28 PM IST
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Led by the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), the study published in the medical journal Lancet on Friday accounted for a large number of explanatory variables such as household size, social factors and health conditions across all ethnic groups and at different stages of COVID-19, from testing to mortality.
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Minority ethnic groups in general and South Asians, in particular, had a higher risk of testing positive for SARS-CoV-2 and of COVID-19 related hospitalisations, intensive care (ICU) admissions and deaths during the second wave of the pandemic in the UK compared to the first, according to a new observational study of 17 million people.