Public Kept In Dark About Location of Virus Outbreaks to Stop ‘Hate Crimes’
Public health officials are keeping the British
people in the dark about the location of new coronavirus outbreaks to
prevent “community tensions” and “hate crimes”.
Members of the public “are not being given a full, accurate, picture of where coronavirus cases are — to protect people who test positive from possible hate attacks,” according to Jane Haynes, Politics & People Editor at BirminghamLive, following an interview with Dr Helen Carter, deputy director for Public Health England (PHE) in England’s West Midlands.
“We have had some incredibly upset people who have spoken of neighbours not speaking to them, of communities not being supportive,” Dr Carter told the reporter.
“Having supported some incredibly distressed members of the public there is an element of wanting to protect them from quite nasty hate crimes,” she added.
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Country-wide, it was reported in late June that around half of the coronavirus infections imported into Britain from overseas since March came from Pakistan, for example — although the BirminghamLive report gave no definite confirmation that Dr Carter was seeking to cover up outbreaks among any one ethnic group.
In Leicester, which was recently put back into lockdown, one local politician suggested problems with a “language barrier” were to blame for the high number of cases — which are most pronounced in the east of the city, where roughly two-thirds of residents are from ethnic minorities.
‘Language Barrier’ Partially Blamed for Coronavirus Surge in UK City Forced Back into Lockdown https://t.co/srFBgfoCy1— Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) July 1, 2020
“[Sometimes] we speak to people who have a confirmed case and we interview them and learn they have been travelling long distances, car-sharing with other people without wearing a mask, or other situations,” she admitted.
“It is a difficult situation to navigate.”
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