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NewsColony BAME NHS workers on Covid-19 frontline should ask ask to be moved says Dame Donna Kinnair Medical leaders yesterday made fresh calls for black and other ethnic minority NHS staff to be redeployed from the front line after they were found to be up to four times as likely to die from the virus.  Figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) showed that the risk of dying was 4.2 times higher for black men and 4.3 times for black women compared with white people of a similar age.  Bangladeshi or Pakistani men were 3.6 times as likely to die and Bangladeshi or Pakistani women 3.5 times, the data showed.  Chief executive and general secretary of the Royal College of Nursing, Dame Donna Kinnair Pharmacy worker Jermaine Wright was a key figure in east London’s grassroots football leagues, he died on April 27 after battling Covid-19 for a month The risk was 2.7 times higher for Indian men and 2.4 times for Indian women, although statisticians...