The publishing of ethnicity data about who is getting infected with Covid-19 has led to residents in Oldham being ‘racially abused’ and discriminated against, a councillor claims.Speaking at a meeting of the borough’s scrutiny panels, Councillor Shoab Akhtar, who represents Werneth ward, asked whether any other local authorities had chosen to make the ethnic breakdown of new coronavirus cases public.Oldham council publishes statistics weekly about how many cases of the virus have been recorded