As in U.S., Covid-19 Risk in Britain Is Higher for Minority Groups

LONDON—British scientists are reporting frequently that some ethnic teams are more susceptible to Covid-19 than the country’s white greater part, a getting mirrored in the U.S. that physicians say is laying bare longstanding inequalities in health among communities.

The most persuasive purpose for the disparity, physicians and scientists say, is that black and other ethnic minority teams in the U.K. are on typical poorer than whites and more very likely to stay in locations or function in occupations in which the danger of publicity to the new…