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Some 16 per cent of people who died in hospital after testing positive for the coronavirus are from ethnic minorities, new NHS England data shows. News reports have contrasted this figure with the fact that 13 per cent of the population of England identified themselves as being from an ethnic minority in the last census. This has led some outlets to suggest BME patients are more likely to die from coronavirus than white people. But the data isn’t so clear
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