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There’s no shortage of customers for Covid-19 vaccinations at Blackburn Cathedral, where, for generations, local folk have sung Christian hymns in their Sunday best. Today, the imposing building is open for other business. Instead of saving souls, it is busy helping to save lives. Volunteers hold umbrellas over Lancashire’s elderly, many in wheelchairs or propped … Read more
Nearly half of all people in some areas with a large population of ethnic minorities are refusing the Covid vaccine when offered it due to fears about what it contains. In Birmingham, 50 per cent of those living in areas with high populations of Asian and African-Caribbean people turned down the vaccine when offered it. In … Read more
Ethnic minorities are more reluctant to take the coronavirus vaccine over anti-vaxxer fears, says study 76% of UK public would take Covid-19 jab if advised to by GP, RSPH poll finds This fell to 57% of people from BAME backgrounds compared to 79% of white Confidence lowest among those of Asian ethnicity, with 55% likely … Read more
Ethnic minorities could be prioritised for coronavirus tests as part of Number 10’s plans to move hotspot areas out of Tier 3 restrictions through regular swabbing. Under the new scheme – which starts when the national lockdown ends – councils will be entitled to target specific groups for regular, asymptomatic testing. People may be selected … Read more
Political correctness does not address the real problems faced by ethnic minorities in Britain, the head of the National Black Police Association has said. Andrew George, an inspector with the Police Service of Northern Ireland, told the Sunday Telegraph that this sensitivity may have gone ‘too far in some stages,’ such as leaving people unable to … Read more
BBC bosses want 20 per cent of guests to be from ethnic minorities as they introduce voluntary scheme for producers to hit the target BBC is introducing a voluntary scheme for show bosses to hit diversity targets Many popular and prominent programmes are expected to sign up to scheme The BBC also announced a new ‘focus … Read more
Ethnic minorities are twice as likely to die from Covid-19 than white people because they live in deprived areas and work in public-facing jobs, more data has suggested. Numerous studies, including government-funded research, have shown black, Asian and ethnic minority (BAME) people are being hit hardest by the disease. Some early scientific papers suggested that … Read more
South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa has called for calm, rejecting claims by pressure groups representing the country’s white minority that a spike in deadly attacks on farms was ‘ethnic cleansing’. His appeal on Monday came after a group of mainly white farmers stormed a courthouse on Wednesday during the hearing of two black suspects accused … Read more
A new drive to increase the numbers of black, Asian and ethnic minority directors sitting on the boards of UK companies is being launched today. The initiative is being spearheaded by Lord Bilimoria, the first ethnic minority president of employers’ organisation the CBI in its 55-year history. It comes as the British-Indian peer, who was … Read more
Tim Davie has admitted the BBC does not deliver ‘equally’ to everyone in the UK, saying metropolitan organisations can feel ‘distant’ from some parts of the population. In a frank discussion yesterday, the new BBC director-general added some parts of the country ‘don’t necessarily feel the broadcaster is for them’. The BBC boss, speaking at a Royal … Read more