’People were abandoned’: injustices of pandemic laid bare in Brent | UK news | The Guardian
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At least 36 residents have died in Church End, a small, deprived estate in north Brent with a large British-Somali population. Locals believe the cluster, which is the second worst in England and Wales, according to the latest data from the Office for National Statistics, does not account for the true scale of the devastation, as it does not factor in people who work in Church End but live nearby. Overall, Brent has the highest age-standardised coronavirus death rate in England and Wales. Excess deaths in the borough are three times the national average. Ibrahim has not had time to process, let alone grieve, the coronavirus deaths in Church End. They include people such as Abdiqaadir Mohamed Farah, who ran a business in Hammersmith and helped get young people into sports. He died on 24 March. Aweys Ahmed Imaan, known locally as Sheikh Aweys, was said to sell the best halwa, a popular Somali sweet, in his shop on Church Road, where there are a string of Somali cafes and stores. He died on 29 March. Musami Mursal Abdi, a tailor who migrated to the UK in the 90s and was a pioneering figure in the community, also died. Many of those who died were men aged in their late 4os to early 60s.
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