Table 2. Ethnicity of COVID-19 cases in the First Few X study compared with the general population of England and Wales, 31 January to 9 April 2020.
| Ethnic groupa | No. (%) of people |
|
|---|---|---|
| COVID-19 cases | Population of England and Walesb | |
| White | 204 (85.0) | 48 209 395 (86.0) |
| Asian, Asian British | 15 (6.3) | 4 213 531 (7.5) |
| Black, African, Caribbean, Black British | 9 (3.8) | 1 864 890 (3.3) |
| Other ethnic group | 8 (3.3) | 563 696 (1.0) |
| Mixed ethnicity | 4 (1.7) | 1 224 400 (2.2) |
| All cases | 240 (100.0) | 56 075 912 (100.0) |
COVID-19: coronavirus disease 2019; United Kingdom: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
a According to the Office for National Statistics of the United Kingdom.
b From the 2011 Office for National Statistics census.18
Note: Data on ethnicity were available for 240 of the 381 confirmed cases of COVID-19. We were unable to ascertain the ethnicity of the cases in Scotland.