LONDON: Black adults are more than four times as likely to die in relation to the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) than white people in Britain, according to a provisional analysis-report by the British Office for National Statistics (ONS).

When taking age into account, black males were 4.2 times more likely to die from deaths that were Covid-related and black females 4.3 times more likely than their white counterparts in the country, said the ONS.

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