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PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Coronavirus: Ethnic Groups and Gender (20 April 2020)

Question Asked

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to collect data on the impact of covid-19 on different (a) genders and (b) ethnicities.

Asked by:
Alberto Costa (Conservative)

Answer

Public Health England has established surveillance systems to collect and analyse data on COVID-19 infection by demographic characteristics including gender.

The number of deaths with confirmed COVID-19 by age and gender can be viewed on the National COVID-19 Weekly Summary Report at the following link:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/national-covid-19-surveillance-reports

NHS England and NHS Improvement lead on reporting deaths with confirmed COVID-19 in hospital. They publish a daily summary that includes a breakdown by ethnicity. These are updated weekly and can be viewed at the following link:

https://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas/covid-19-daily-deaths/


Answered by:
Jo Churchill (Conservative)
21 July 2020

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