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  • ‘Urgent help’ is required to drive down COVID-19 death rates among ethnic minority communities

    Date: 16/02/2021 00:00:00

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/february/covid-19-among-ethnic-minorities

    The disproportionate rates of COVID-19 related deaths among people from ethnic minorities is ‘alarming’ and requires ‘urgent attention’...

  • Recruitment begins for ethnic minority healthcare staff COVID research study

    Date: 04/12/2020 00:00:00

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/december/recruitment-begins-for-ethnic-minority-healthcare-staff

    A drive to encourage ethnic minority healthcare workers to participate in a Government-backed study investigating the risks of COVID-19 to their...

  • COVID-19 up to twice as likely to infect people of Black and Asian ethnicity

    Date: 12/11/2020 10:00:00

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/november/covid19-ethnicity

    According to researchers at the Universities of Leicester and Nottingham, COVID-19 up to twice as likely to infect people of Black and Asian ethnicity

  • Heightened COVID-19 risk for BAME healthcare workers to be examined in major UK study

    Date: 28/07/2020 23:00:00

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/july/covid-bame-risk-study

    More than £2m of Government funding has been awarded to academics at the University of Leicester to investigate why people from BAME (black, Asian...

  • Signs of early heart failure revealed in patients with type 2 diabetes

    Date: 16/07/2020 23:30:00

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/july/heart-failure-diabetes

    Adults with type 2 diabetes that have no history, signs or symptoms of heart problems have been shown to have severely limited exercise capacity.

  • Study raises important questions about lockdown effects on BAME communities

    Date: 16/07/2020 23:00:00

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/july/lockdown-effects-on-bame-communities

    New research by University of Leicester academics reveals lockdown measures imposed in late March, during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic,...

  • Representing BAME individuals in Covid-19 research

    Date: 12/06/2020 23:00:00

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/june/bame-individuals

    Researchers must ensure people of Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) groups are proportionately represented in Covid-19 studies, according to...

  • First clinical review confirms BAME and COVID-19 link

    Date: 02/06/2020 23:00:00

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/june/bame-covid-clinical-review

    Black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) individuals are at an increased risk of SARS-CoV-2 infection and adverse clinical outcomes, according to...

  • New tool launched to reduce frontline NHS staff deaths from COVID-19

    Date: 12/05/2020 23:00:00

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/may/new-tool

    A new tool to reduce the number of frontline NHS staff deaths from COVID-19 has been launched across the health service today.

  • Call for guidance after BAME COVID-19 death figures released

    Date: 06/05/2020 23:00:00

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/may/call-for-guidance

    Urgent guidance on how the NHS will seek to minimise risk to those people from BAME backgrounds who are receiving care and serving on the...

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