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Almost a year on, Mohammad Nuruzzaman from the Darul Arqam Masjid and Muslim Community Centre said there had been "no meaningful improvement" and that many people still felt "unsupported and unprotected".

Philosopher and public intellectual Cornel West has described Black Americans as historically existing in a state of being “unsafe, unprotected, subject to random violence, and hated for who they are.”

Dr Shapiro said there is "an element of chance" at play, where a virus is introduced to a community by accident and spreads among those who are unprotected.

This means if you could stay in the sun for 10 minutes unprotected without burning, SPF 15 would in theory give you 15 times that protection, or two-and-a-half hours before you would burn.

The situation has been made worse by the Covid pandemic, leaving millions of children unprotected from diseases such as measles, tuberculosis and polio.