Name: Poorest twice as likely to die from coronavirus in UK - BBC News
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It's been acknowledged by government and other public bodies that the pandemic has hit vulnerable groups and those living in deprived areas.

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Official figures for England show that the overall death rate between April and June this year in the poorest areas was nearly double that of the least deprived.

The government says it is committed to reducing deprivation to spend over £100 billion in welfare support this year.

On that they are ensuring that councils have the appropriate resources.

Our special correspondent, Ed Thomas, has spent time in Burnley on reports now on some of those trying to cope there with unemployment on with mental health issues.

I love the poor because I know I am the poor.

And as long as the breathe, I'll serve the poor into portion.

You see all these people, they have Children, hungry Children, distance.

It's hard to keep your distance when you're cold and hungry.

Politicians said that it was a level this coronavirus.

He's a lie because if you're poor, you've got no Charles.

There's June, the past American all thought.

It's really hard to get food from the cell because I have got much money only on.

I can't go out anywhere a couple of days.

Food is being everything towards but have no facts.

Every time you get any money disappears as fast as you've got it with the coronavirus as well.

With the reduction in where just it's not easy to court.

Yes, Yeah, you can eat and it helps out wherever you stop running chocolate.

I think of all that chocolate Abrams on All this is laid on by Pastor Meg needs massive, absolutely colossal.

This is a church A represent the level of need here in Burnley at the moment is I think, unprecedented and it's upsetting.

Yeah, for too many, the legacy of coronavirus is not only sickness but desperation.

Visiting a family who had no carpet had no city who had no gas.

I brought my heart because nobody cared for them.

They fell through the crack pot noodles, that kind of stuff.

Onda sometimes have Children ripping the bags often to get the food is I'm carrying them to the door.

The virus, the biggest part of Corona virus has been the long winner Most days past.

Keep trying to force myself to week have stop e Emperor about a week.

I just ended up collapsing on my bathroom floor.

I lost my husband, not buried to my babies.

I give birth to a mouth I wanted them to do cry and they didn't cry.

Yeah, no mother has to go through that Corona Barre's brutal.

I thought my time we're up On past Amec says he's hearing more and more of these stories were trying to fix a bit hard to people's lives, the unfairness of health deprivation.

I feel angry because people aren't listening.

I'm supposed to have a blood test a month a month from accounts account?

I don't wanna be a dream of the system that's already dying because I'm already honey, we can't do nothing.

There's even less than lose to The first lady of our food bank came and she brought down Daughter had killed the south way, proving Jesus e.

Okay, you have to try and find words without their support.

May I probably be where my daughter is now.

Then together, they're the hope for thousands through this crisis.

You know, it's, um, Carrie, Carrie, People's burns.

You try to tell him that it's It's all right.

 Yeah, that was a father Alex Frost, ending that report there by our special correspondent, Ed Thomas. 