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BBC Analysis Shows At Least 70 UK Healthcare Workers Have Died With COVID-19

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At least 70 healthcare workers have died in the UK since the start of the outbreak, ongoing BBC News analysis has shown.

Further analysis suggests healthcare workers with black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) backgrounds are disproportionately represented among the dead.

Out of 60 deaths where we have been able to establish ethnicity and occupation, 42 have BAME backgrounds.

About one in five of the NHS’s 1.2 million workforce are from BAME backgrounds, government figures show.

Public Health England is set to start recording the ethnicity of those to die with coronavirus, after research suggested people from black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds are at greater risk of becoming seriously ill.

BBC News has been hearing from the families and colleagues of some of the healthcare workers to have died so far.

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