the United States has become the first
country in the world to record more than
2,000 deaths associated with coronavirus
in a single day they have now been over
20,000 deaths there and more than half a
million confirmed infections and North
America correspondent Nick Bryant
reports now from New York
Easter weekend in New York City the date
in the calendar that Donald Trump spoke
of only a few weeks ago as the moment to
reopen the American economy but the
restrictions will remain in place at
least until the end of the month and
there were signs today the coronavirus
spring could become the coronavirus
summer New York announced its schools
will remain shut at least until
September the Good Friday ended up being
the most deadly day since the virus
reached these shores more than 2,000
people lost their lives and America has
now surpassed Italy as the country with
the most coronavirus deaths 783 people
777 799 these are just incredible
numbers depicting incredible loss and
pain for America this has been by far
the worst week of the coronavirus crisis
but there are signs of hope the
hospitalization rate in New York is down
they believe they're flattening the
curve and evoking a famous quote from
Winston Churchill the governor here
spoke of reaching the end of the
beginning
this isn't an Easter ritual but now a
nightly one in New York part of the same
wave of applause that has gone around
the world the sand of thanks the sand of
aberration for medical workers the sound
that momentarily drowns out the sirens
Nick Brandt BBC News New York well in
the u.s. the danger from COBIT 19 seems
to be highest for America's minority
communities who've been
disproportionately affected and the
government here has admitted that
there's emerging evidence of the same
trend in the UK the majority of
frontline doctors who've died in the NHS
have been a black Asian or minority
ethnic heritage a new research has also
found that patients from these
backgrounds are being disproportionately
admitted to critical care units across
the UK a community affairs correspondent
Rihanna crops and reports when you can't
even hug your mother
two hours after your father passes away
that pain really does affect you it
hurts you so much this is a mirror one
his father Nazir died on Wednesday this
is his message if you loved your loved
ones between lobby parents and you loved
your friends and you loved your family
please stayed home the grandfather of
six was described by his family as a
legend the backbone of his community a
man who loved his Cissy and gave so much
back to it we said you're going to get
through this and you're gonna fight this
and in two days he's one of thousands of
people who have lost their lives to
coronavirus early researcher suggesting
that people of black Asian and minority
ethnic heritage are being
disappointingly affected only 40 percent
of people in England and Wales are from
these backgrounds yet they currently
make up 34% of patients in critical care
units but you have colleagues who have
taken to buying their own goggles and
this Union doctor works at Ealing
Hospital in London one of the worst-hit
areas in the country she says there
could be many factors behind the figures
whether there's a genetic component we
don't know that we have seen that
certain underlying comorbidities like
diabetes high blood pressure etc can
impact the way that you experience this
disease places and worship can be huge
sources of spread just because there are
so many people in such a small space
there is clear evidence to show that
coming from lower socioeconomic
background if you can't speak English
and particularly in this current
environment where you can't really bring
a family member in with you because if
are concerned with Karuna that can have
a huge impact from simply just being
able to say I'm in pain
untreated breath labour has called on
the government to urgently investigate
the data and said it was deeply
disturbed by the number of ethnic
minority doctors who had died dr. John
and China kwinda is working on the front
line at Kingston hospital he has
recently lost his father and colleagues
to the virus and says more data is
needed I think it's really important we
look at why people have died look at the
patterns so there any lessons we can
learn for the future I think will be
very important and hoping the Department
of Health and public health England are
collecting that data so it can help
support communities in the future the
Department for Health at its current
data on coronavirus did not track
ethnicity but these families hope this
won't lead to them being overlooked
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