the family of dr abdul mabud chowdhury have paid a heavy price during the coronavirus crisis. on the front line of the nhs meant dr chowdhury, who died at the height of the pandemic, was already at risk of infection. now it's clear that as a man of south asian heritage, that risk was even greater. it was quite clarifying — it clarifies why my dad passed, because my dad was a really healthy, strong, fit man, so the fact that he wasn't able to fight this off, i knew it couldn't be a fault of his, but a fault on a larger scale, that larger scale being that south asians are so much more prone to dying from this virus. today's study of 35,000 hospital patients across england, scotland and wales found those from a south asian background were 20% more likely to die than white people. with an average age of 60, they were also 12 years younger, and 40% of south asian patients had type 1 or type 2 diabetes, compared with 25% of white groups. asians and other ethnic minorities are in occupations which are at greater risk. we do need to think about how we deal with ethnicity and pre—exist

chowdhury advises colleagues for free for many poor farmers he is the only source of information about new farming methods he also teaches the basics. but other thing is to get well versed in crop and plant diseases and new farmers need to stay abreast of the markets so their crops can command good prices but not at that 1. $400.00 greenhouses have already gone up around the village chowdhury also explains how farming can flourish when you take a circular closed loop or holistic approach. the ponds not only supply water they are also fish farms and thus provide another source of income drip irrigation is efficient and doesn't use much water technology was developed in israel where it is widely used. saying this many israel in my village has given me confidence to turn to farming i am now assured that agriculture is a very lucrative business order and organic farming is most profitable. he is enthusiastic about his prospects as an organic farmer. his brother however plans to go back to the big city. or look what i've done i have decided not to return to surat because i will earn more he

the family of dr abdul mabud chowdhury have paid a heavy price during the coronavirus crisis.t dr chowdhury, who died at the height of the pandemic, was already at risk of infection. now it's clear that as a man of south asian heritage, that risk was even greater. it was quite clarifying — it clarifies why my dad passed, because my dad was a really healthy, strong, fit man, so the fact that he wasn't able to fight this off, i knew it couldn't be a fault of his, but a fault on a larger scale, that larger scale being that south asians are so much more prone to dying from this virus. today's study of 35,000 hospital patients across england, scotland and wales found those from a south asian background were 20% more likely to die than white people. with an average age of 60, they were also 12 years younger, and 40% of south asian patients had type 1 or type 2 diabetes, compared with 25% of white groups. asians and other ethnic minorities are in occupations which are at greater risk. we do need to think about how we deal with ethnicity and pre—existing conditions like diabetes as we

we can now speak to the director of save the children india, anindit roy—chowdhury. hello to you.s of child malnourishment in the world. how is the pandemic made this worse? frankly speaking, i believe that hunger is going to kill children faster than the covid virus. that is the reality. simply because at this point in time there are millions of families who do not have a job, who do not have any burning, or they probably had very little savings, which they have already eaten up. we are ina which they have already eaten up. we are in a situation where we know that children are not getting the regular diets they were used to getting, which in any case was not at the optimal level. the other thing which is also very important is that of the centres, the drop—in centres, the learning centres, they we re centres, the learning centres, they were providing daily meals for these children. for some children that was the only one nutritious meal they we re the only one nutritious meal they were getting in the entire day. now even that has stopped. so the worry frankly is that there is the