British Pakistanis are among the minorities that are at a higher risk of contracting and dying of the new coronavirus than the rest of the white UK population, a study has found.

An in-depth analysis by the Institute of Fiscal Studies showed that the death rate among British Pakistanis and British Black Africans is 2.5 times that of the white population due to Covid-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus.

The report comes as several doctors, nurses and medical assistants from the British Pakistani community lost their lives to the virus.

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