England to require ethnicity on death certificates to help tackle Covid-19

Government plans measures to help understand why minorities are more vulnerableThe government is to make the recording of ethnicity on death certificates in England mandatory in an effort to tackle the unequal impact of Covid-19 on people from minority ethnic groups.A series of measures to better understand why people from ethnic minorities are more likely to contract Covid-19 and die as a result are due to be put in place, after the prime minister accepted recommendations from the government’s Race Disparity Unit (RDU) advisory group. Continue reading... https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/oct/22/uk-to-require-ethnicity-on-birth-certificates-to-help-tackle-covid-19 #coronavirus #health_policy #politics #health #uk_news