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FactCheck: why is Covid-19 hitting ethnic minorities harder?
Major studies by the Office for National Statistics, the Institute for Fiscal Studies and Public Health England have found significantly higher mortality rates among ethnic minority populations.
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FactCheck: are ethnic minority coronavirus patients more likely to die?
Some reports suggest BME patients are more likely to die from coronavirus than white people. But the data isn’t clear.
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‘We are coping but it is taking a toll on us’ – ICU doctor on coronavirus
Shahzaib Ahmad, a junior doctor in intensive care at a South London hospital, said his hospital still had capacity but their resources were being stretched.
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FactCheck: are BME people more likely to be in intensive care with coronavirus?
This data doesn’t show that ethnic minority patients overall are three times more likely to need critical care, as has been suggested.
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Boris Johnson says ‘we can turn the tide’ on coronavirus in 12 weeks
Twelve weeks to turn the tide was Boris Johnson’s message at today’s Downing Street press conference. But he said the virus would only be “sent packing” if the public followed medical advice on social distancing.
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China Coronavirus: fears over the spread of deadly virus
At least 17 people are now thought to have died and over 500 been infected by the coronavirus, which was first identified in the Chinese city of Wuhan
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Street artist Shepard Fairey: ‘Without hope, people don’t act’
The image that sums up Barack Obama’s inaugural presidential campaign – and, perhaps the most famous work by street artist Shepard Fairey, who’s made a thirty year career out of his uplifting, progressive designs – creating images that went viral, before there was such a thing as viral. Now along with an exhibition of his…
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New IRA says border infrastructure would be ‘legitimate target for attack’
In an interview with Channel 4 News, the group said it was committed to ‘armed actions’ against border infrastructure – and ‘the people who are manning them’.
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FactCheck: supreme court ruling on prorogation explained
So what does it mean? And what happens next? We’ve lined up some political and constitutional experts to help us explain.
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Top Boy returns, with Drake’s backing
Top Boy is returning to Netflix, thanks to the hip hop star Drake. His involvement has brought in many British rappers too.
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Exclusive: Johnson considering building bridge between Scotland and Northern Ireland
Documents seen by Channel 4 News reveal that the Treasury and Department for Transport have been asked for advice on possible costs and risks.
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FactCheck: Boris Johnson’s stop and search knife claim
Some 10,827 knives were seized under the scheme, but this includes blades recovered through means other than stop and search.
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How VR is being used to help young people tackle knife crime
London is not the only city trying to tackle a surge in violent crime. There’s been a sharp increase in knife-related offences in the West Midlands, where deaths among young people are at their highest for 40 years.
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The Amazon tribe battling to save the rainforest
Last month deforestation in the Amazon basin hit record levels. It results from the pro-farming policy being pursued by Brazil’s new President Jair Bolsonaro.
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FactCheck: is Labour right that the UK ‘has never been more unequal’?
That was the claim in one of the Labour party’s official leaflets.