Overcrowded housing has helped to spread Covid-19 in
England and may have increased the number of deaths, according to research by
the Health Foundation. People living in cramped conditions have been more
exposed to the coronavirus and were less able to reduce their risk of infection
because their homes were so small, the thinktank found. Overcrowding was a key
reason why poorer people and those from ethnic minority backgrounds in
particular had been disproportionately affected by the pandemic, it said. Read
more on the Observer website.
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