A new report from MPs looking at how the government handled the pandemic has said housing conditions contributed to more people from BAME communities dying from Covid-19.

In the report, MPs said: “Existing social, economic and health inequalities were exacerbated by the pandemic and combined with possible biological factors contributed to unequal outcomes including unacceptably high death rates amongst people from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic communities. Increased exposure to covid as a result of people’s housing and working conditions played a significant role.”

The report says that overcrowding and multigenerational households are both factors to being “exposed to higher covid-19 risk”.

It chimes with a previous report, in which government own analysis showed overcrowding could have been a significant factor in causing a high number of Covid-19 cases in South Asian groups.

It follows on from similar analysis made during the first wave, that showed housing played a significant part in the increased number of infections dependent on ethnicity.

You can read the full report from MPs on the government’s handling of the pandemic here.