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UK’s COVID-19 inquiry should address racism, says campaign group

A man takes a photograph of a message on the National Covid Memorial Wall, a dedication of thousands of hand painted hearts and messages commemorating victims of the COVID-19 pandemic, in London [File: Peter Nicholls/Reuters]

The United Kingdom should address how structural racism affected the death toll in all inquiries into how the government handled the pandemic, a campaign group has argued.

During the global health crisis, people of ethnic minority backgrounds died at a far higher rate than white Britons. Civil rights groups have said that racism played a role.

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