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We need to collect ethnicity data during COVID testing if we're to get on top of Sydney's outbreak

  • Written by Andrew Jakubowicz, Emeritus Professor of Sociology, University of Technology Sydney
We need to collect ethnicity data during COVID testing if we're to get on top of Sydney's outbreak

There are certain facts about COVID governments in other countries quickly realised. In the US, UK, New Zealand and Canada, they have known for a long time COVID disproportionately affects people of colour from cultural minorities.

In Australia, we know more about how COVID is affecting Indigenous people — though still not enough —...

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