Rising cases of COVID-19 across the Pacific
Although the Pacific region is still the region with the least amount of infections worldwide, it has seen in recent wee...
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Recent research from The Guardian newspaper showed that Maori are 50% more likely to die from coronavirus than New Zealanders from a European background.Maori and other Pacific communities have a lower life expectancy as well as a larger amount of unmet healthcare needs, which contribute to the reasons as to why they are more likely to be hospitalised and even die to coronavirus. Moreover, the research highlighted that Maori and other Pacific communities are quite young and experience greater health issues overall, which has been seen to increase the severity of infection from coronavirus, as well as the risk of death, also enhanced due to greater poverty.These findings raise the need to control and stop the spread of the virus globally, in particular to ethnic minorities who are at greater risk from COVID-19.
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Maori and Pacific populations are at higher risk of dying from COVID-19
Recent research from The Guardian newspaper showed that Maori are 50% more likely to die from coronavirus than New Zealanders from a European background.Maori and other Pacific communities have a lower life expectancy as well as a larger amount of unmet healthcare needs, which contribute to the reasons as to why they are more likely to be hospitalised and even die to coronavirus. Moreover, the research highlighted that Maori and other Pacific communities are quite young and experience greater health issues overall, which has been seen to increase the severity of infection from coronavirus, as well as the risk of death, also enhanced due to greater poverty.These findings raise the need to control and stop the spread of the virus globally, in particular to ethnic minorities who are at greater risk from COVID-19.
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