How coronavirus tore through Britain’s ethnic minorities - BBC News
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The PHE report reveals that people living in the most deprived areas of the country are twice as likely as those living in the least deprived areas to be diagnosed with and to die of Covid-19. People of Black, Asian and mixed ethnicities are all significantly more likely to live in the most deprived 10% of neighbourhoods, according to government statistics.
Overcrowded households are linked to this deprivation, too. Overcrowding is significantly more prevalent in lower-income households than in wealthier ones - according to one study, it affects 7% of the poorest fifth of households, as opposed to 0.5% of those in the richest fifth. This poses additional challenges for Ursala Khan, who provides counselling specifically to Bame youths through her work at The What Centre in Dudley. Since the coronavirus outbreak began, privacy has become a huge issue, she says. Many of the teens she works with live with large families in small spaces, meaning they don’t have enough privacy to talk on the phone or video-call about mental health.
“Although we do offer alternatives like online counselling or phone counselling, there are still concerns for people trying to access those,” Ursala says. "If someone lives in an over-crowded house, it’s quite difficult for them to know if they’ll have the privacy to speak to us about their mental health. According to the English Housing Survey, carried out between 2014 and 2017, 30% of Bangladeshi households, 16% of Pakistani households and 12% of Black households experienced overcrowding. This was compared with just 2% of white British households.South Asian families in the UK are also more likely than white families to live in multi-generational households, with up to three generations of the same family living together.t
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