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Celebrities urge people from BAME backgrounds to take part in Covid research

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Hollywood actor Whoopi Goldberg has joined other celebrities in a plea to people from black, Asian or minority ethnic (BAME) backgrounds to take part in Covid-19 research to help find out why those communities are so badly affected by the virus.

The Oscar winner teamed up with comedian Omid Djalili and Goodness Gracious Me star Sanjeev Bhaskar for a video urging people to help save lives by participating in ongoing tests and trials to establish the reasons behind the increased risk.

Analysis by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) has found black men and women are more than four times more likely to suffer a coronavirus-related death than white people.

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