Security guards, chefs and taxi drivers most likely to die from coronavirus

Security guards, chefs and taxi drivers most likely to die from coronavirus

Security guards, taxi drivers and chefs are at the highest risk of dying from coronavirus, shocking new data has revealed.

The Office for National Statistics found the three occupations had the highest rate of Covid-19 deaths among men, and were significantly higher than doctors and nurses.

 

 

 

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Care workers, home carers, bus drivers, and retail workers were also among the worst affected occupations with significantly higher death rates than the rest of the population.

However, the ONS data surprisingly showed healthcare workers, including doctors and nurses, did not have a higher Covid-19 death rate than the general population.

The figures are based on an analysis of the 2,494 registered deaths involving coronavirus among workers aged 20 to 64 in England and Wales up to and including April 20.

Nearly two-thirds of these deaths – 1,612 – were among men, with a significantly higher death rate of 9.9 per 100,000, compared with 5.2 deaths per 100,000 females. Among men, security guards had the highest Covid-19 death rate, with 45.7 deaths per 100,000 (63 deaths).

 

 

 

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Taxi drivers and chauffeurs had a rate of 36.4 (76 deaths) and chefs a rate of 35.9 (31 deaths). The ONS also found low-skilled workers in construction had a high rate of 25.9 deaths per 100,000 males, which comes less than 24 hours after Boris Johnson said people who work in construction and manufacturing should return to work this week.

 

eople working in social care, including care workers and home carers, have ‘significantly’ higher death rates involving Covid-19 than the working population as a whole, the ONS found.

For male social care workers in England and Wales, the rate of death involving Covid-19 is estimated to be 23.4 deaths per 100,000 males, while for female social care workers the figure is 9.6.

For female workers, the ONS did not identify any specific jobs with raised rates of death involving Covid-19, instead highlighting only one broad group where the Covid-19 mortality rate was significantly higher than other women: caring, leisure and other service occupations.

The ONS said its analysis ‘does not prove conclusively that the observed rates of death involving Covid-19 are necessarily caused by differences in occupational exposure’.

It said the researchers had adjusted the data for age, but not for other factors such as ethnic group or place of residence. The findings could change as more deaths are registered, the ONS added.

Prof Neil Pearce, from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, said this ‘important report’ confirms that in the working age population Covid-19 is largely an occupational disease. He said:

‘This is not just for health care and social care workers, but for many other occupations that involve contact with people.

‘The highest Covid-19 death rates are for security guards, with high rates also for taxi drivers and chauffeurs, bus and coach drivers, chefs, sales and retail assistants, construction workers, and service occupations (including hospital porters, kitchen and catering assistants, and waiters).

 

 

 

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‘The authors note that the findings are adjusted for age, but not for other factors such as ethnic group and place of residence; pre-existing conditions such as diabetes and obesity may also vary by occupational group.

‘Nevertheless, the findings are striking, and emphasise that we need to look beyond health and social care, and that there is a broad range of occupations which may be at risk from Covid-19.

These are many of the same occupations that are now being urged to return to work, in some instances without proper safety measures and PPE being in place.’