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Black families harder hit financially by COVID, government data shows 27% of Black people found it difficult to get by in April, compared with fewer than 10% of white people BLACK FAMILIES have been harder hit financially by the coronavirus pandemic, according to a recent report by the government’s official statistics body. The Office for National Statistics (ONS) found that 27% of people from Black backgrounds reported finding it difficult to get by in April, compared with fewer than 10% among white people. This report also showed that 25% of Black people reported they were behind on bill...

Those in the Indian ethnic group in the UK reported both an increased difficulty with sleep due to worry in the initial period of lockdown (April 2020) and had higher scores than other groups on a measure of self-reported mental health difficulties. Almost three in 10 White Irish respondents were more likely than those White British, Chinese and other Asian or Black, African, Caribbean or Black British groups to report an increase in loneliness or continuing to feel lonely often between 2019 and April 2020. Almost three in 10 White Irish respondents were more likely to report an increase in l...