Table 2.

COVID-19 admission and death by ethnic category showing numbers, absolute rates per 1000 population, and excess risk and ORs (95% CI) versus the white group as comparator

	White	South Asian	Black	Other or unknown
Total numbers	142 781 (63%)	44 229 (19%)	17 858 (8%)	23 764 (10%)
COVID-19 admission	684 (74%)	83 (9%)	113 (12%)	50 (5%)
COVID-19 admission/1000	4.8	1.9	6.3	2.1
COVID-19 admission excess risk/1000	Comparator	−2.9	1.5	−2.7
COVID-19 admission OR	Comparator	0.39 (0.31 to 0.48), p<0.001	1.31 (1.07 to 1.59), p<0.001	0.43 (0.33 to 0.58), p<0.001
COVID-19 death	190 (70%)	32 (12%)	39 (14%)	11 (4%)
COVID-19 death/1000	1.3	0.7	2.2	0.5
COVID-19 death excess risk/1000	Comparator	−0.6	0.9	−0.9
COVID-19 death OR	Comparator	0.54 (0.37 to 0.79), p<0.01	1.64 (1.16 to 2.31), p<0.01	0.35 (0.19 to 0.64), p<0.01
COVID-19 death/COVID-19 admission/1000	0.3	0.4	0.3	0.2
COVID-19 death in COVID-19 admission OR	Comparator	1.55 (0.96 to 2.51), p=0.075, ns	1.19 (0.78 to 1.83), p=0.423, ns	0.63 (0.32 to 1.25), p=0.187, ns

‘Chinese’, ‘mixed’ and ‘unknown’ categories showed no significant associations as individual categories in this analysis or when merged as ‘other or unknown’.