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A Report with measures for the protection of Ethnic Minorities from the Corona Virus is, has been drawn up for the government, Bbc News has learned.

Public Health England (PHE) published a review of the past week confirmed coronavirus kills people from Ethnic Minorities to disproportionately high prices.

But a " senior academic told Bbc News that a further Report to take backup of the proposals in attack, there was also.

And PHE is now saying this Report will be published next week.

The already published PHE review found, people from Bangladesh heritage died at twice the rate of white British, while the other black, Asian and Ethnic Minorities , between 10% and 50% higher risk of death had to be.

However, it was often criticised, since they by MPs for not including recommendations for the protection of these communities.

If question not asked, in The House of Commons last week, the equalities Minister, Kemi Badenoch , Said Public Health England "recommendations, because they were able to do this", and you would bring this work forward.

But Raj Bhopal, a professor Emeritus of Public Health , from the Usher Institute, at the University of Edinburgh, told Bbc News : "Parliament was not told the full truth. "

PHE had asked him to peer-review a late-stage draft of a 64-page government Report Marked "official-sensitive" and with the title Beyond the data: the understanding of the impact of Covid-19 on the Black, Asian and Ethnic Minorities (Sundays) municipalities, with recommendations, as well as the proof of 4,000 individuals and organisations, four days before the official health review was published, He Said .

Prof Bhopal believes that The Work has not been published yet

Prof Bhopal Bbc News Said the document was an "Open Secret " and had "all the hallmarks of a [government] Report to The Press ".

He Said : "The Public has expressed a great deal of disappointment, as well as people who are part of these advice, questions, 'Where are our votes?'"

"to save lives, the confidence of The Public .

"When you publish advice to The Public , you need to the results.

"Otherwise, you have wasted your time, you have wasted your own time you have wasted tax uses of funds, and you have lost trust. "

Prof Bhopal also concerns official public expressed-health messaging was not "culturally sensitive," Said the ethnic minority of workers required risk assessments.

"you should have acted much earlier' Sohail Anjum was severely ill with Covid-19

Sohail Anjum, 47, from Croydon, South London , had Covid-19 for two months, including 23 days in a medically-induced coma.

After the recording to go to the ICU, in March, he received a 50-50 chance of survival, and had weakness, blood poisoning, and severe muscle, its ability to influence.

And while he was unconscious, His Mother , Rashida, 81, died with The Virus .

"feel The whole experience very surreal," he told Bbc News .

"I have not resigned yet, because of the trauma I went through. "

Mr Anjum now wants a public inquiry into the differences in the mortality rates between different ethnic groups.

"It makes me a bit sad, because this is something that should be highlighted was that very early on, that could have helped prevent The High level of deaths in Sundays-groups," He Said .

One of the 4,000 contributions to the design of the Report , Zainab Gulamali, from the Muslim Council of Britain, is "shocked and disappointed" his recommendations remain unpublished.

"One of The Key recommendations we had was for the NHS, that there is a problem with the structural racism and discrimination against Ethnic Minorities and Muslims to fight sorry to ask for this and put an action place in place," She Said .

"We spent so many months talking about how black, Asian and Ethnic Minorities , individuals die, but we don't do anything about it. "

meanwhile, the Runnymede Trust , interim managing Director, Dr Zubaida Haque has health Minister, Matt Hancock wrote, along with a coalition of 15 other race equality organisations, with the most important recommendations for the protection of ethnic minority workers.

"We asked for better access to personal protective equipment for all key workers in all sectors, for the government to strengthen the social security safety net, including universal credit, housing, increase money and statutory sickness pay to cushion the economic impact," she told Bbc News .

"We also, for an end to the" no recourse to public funds " condition of migrants, to remain in the little or no permission is imposed, and to ensure that everyone have access to medical care through the scrappage scheme and the data-sharing agreement between the NHS and the Home Office . "

A PHE official Said , one of his doctors, Prof Kevin Fenton, had listened to the views, concerns and ideas of a significant number of individuals and organizations within ethno-national minorities and to create The Draft Report .

"This is an important commitment to The Work , The Work , which Said the equalities minister, the now forward," She Said .

"We want to formally, both as a submission of this work to the minister next week and publish it at the same time. "

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