It’s important to know how COVID-19 affects our community. Thats why we’re thankful to The Sikh Network for leading on this initiative. Make sure your local Gurdwara gets a copy of this!
Dear Gurdwara Executives,
We urgently need to collect data on the number of Sikhs that are falling to Covid-19 as numbers are growing very rapidly. No public body in the UK collects any data on the number of Sikh deaths in total or from the Corona Virus Covid-19.
ONS collects data on a weekly basis using records on registration of deaths that record the cause of death but has no Sikh specific information. Usually in the month of March the weekly number of deaths is between 10,000-11.000. On the basis Sikhs are 1% of the population this suggests around 100-110 deaths each week.
ONS data suggests the number of deaths from Covid-19 was 0.05% for the week ending 13 March, this increased to 0.97% for week ending 20 March. The data for the week ending 27 March has not been released but is likely to be around 5% and the data for the week ending 3 April will be around 20%.
Due to this critical data gap, as a community we must again collect our own data ourselves. This will be essential to understand how and where this virus is affecting the Sikh community and importantly the proportionality of Sikhs suffering compared with the UK population.
Can you please provide the data requested in the downloadable form below and return this form to info@thesikhnetwork.com or Whatsapp: 07967 655655
Kind regards
The Sikh Network
Sikh Council UK
Sikh Doctors Association
