China News Service, May 11 (Xinhua) According to the British "British-Chinese Times" report, after the outbreak of the new coronary pneumonia in the UK, some scholars have noticed that different ethnicities in the UK show different mortality rates.
The data released by the British National Bureau of Statistics on the morning of the 8th confirmed this: Black ethnic groups in the UK are more than four times as likely to die of new coronary pneumonia as whites. These data cover England and Wales from March 2 to April. The number of deaths on the 10th.
Directly from the data, the mortality rate of black people has even more than four times that of white people, followed by Bangladesh and Pakistani and Indian. Among them, Indian women are 2.7 times more likely to die of new coronary pneumonia than white women. It is the only female with a significantly higher rate than men.
Chinese and mixed races are the ethnic minorities with the lowest mortality rates, but they are still higher than whites.
In the early days of the outbreak, some scholars found that ethnic minorities are more likely to have basic diseases such as cardiovascular disease and diabetes. In addition, according to a study of the British Housing Survey, from 2014 to 2017, only 2% of white British families were overcrowded, but 30% of Bangladeshi families, 16% of Pakistani families, and black families were 12%.
In addition, nearly 21% of the employees working on the front line of the NHS come from non-white backgrounds, which is not in proportion to the ethnic minority's proportion of about 14% of the total population in England and Wales.
In addition, about 12.8% of the workers from India and Pakistan are engaged in public transportation such as public transport, long-distance buses and taxi drivers, and this number is only 3.5% among white people. The National Bureau of Statistics said that further data work will identify high-risk occupations.
In an attempt to rule out interference from other factors, and to confirm how many of these differences are related to ethnicity, statisticians target the age of the population and the areas of residence, rural and urban classification, poverty-stricken areas, family composition, socioeconomic status, highest education and basic disease Other factors adjusted the statistical results.
After considering all these factors, the revised data shows that black ethnicity is still twice as likely to die of new coronary pneumonia as whites, and Bangladeshi and Pakistani men are 1.8 times more likely to die of new coronary pneumonia than whites, and these Ethnic women are 1.6 times more likely to die from the virus than whites.
Indian men and women are less likely to die of new coronary pneumonia, but their vulnerability is still 1.3 times and 1.4 times that of whites. In the revised data, Chinese women are the only people who are not more vulnerable than whites, while Chinese men are still 1.2 times more likely to die of new coronary pneumonia than whites.
The British Bureau of Statistics said that this statistical result shows that the huge difference in ethnic mortality among the new crowns is partly due to differences in socioeconomic status, but there are other factors that have not yet been explained.