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Covid-19 info for funeral director, cemetery & crematorium, mortuary occupation
Please can you provide me with the following data:
Number of COVID 19 Deaths & COVID 19 Related deaths I.e. on the death certificate for this profession
Number of reported COVID Cases for this profession
Number of people in this profession required to isolate
Information collated should cover form March 2020 to present.
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COVID-19 infections
Unfortunately, we do not hold COVID-19 cases for the funeral director, cemetery and crematorium, mortuary occupation. We also do not hold information on the number of people forced to isolate within this profession. Public Health England (PHE) may be better placed to assist. They can be contacted via email at wn_coronavirus@phe.gov.uk.
You may find the following analysis we hold regarding COVID-19 infection rates by occupation:
By occupation and work location in our July article
Work location and patient facing roles in our August article
Patient facing roles by age in our September article
Antibodies by occupation and patient facing roles in our November article
Teachers, key workers and other professions in our November 06 bulletin
Ethnicity by region and occupation in our December article
A sample of school staff were tested as part of our School Infection Survey (SIS), the results of which are available via the following link for Round 1: School Infection Survey
Deaths involving COVID-19
This information can be found within our Coronavirus (COVID-19) related deaths by occupation, England and Wales, March to December 2020 dataset on Table 5.
Occupations are defined using the Standard Occupation Classification (SOC 2010). Definitions of all groups and individual occupations can be found below.
6148 | Undertakers, mortuary and crematorium assistants |
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Download this table 614: Caring personal services
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Deaths involving COVID-19 - Men | |||||
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SOC individual occupation | Description | Deaths | Rate | Lower CI | Upper CI |
6148 | Undertakers, mortuary and crematorium assistants | 2 | : | : | : |
Deaths involving COVID-19 - Women | |||||
SOC individual occupation | Description | Deaths | Rate | Lower CI | Upper CI |
6148 | Undertakers, mortuary and crematorium assistants | 1 | : | : | : |
Download this table Table 6: Deaths involving COVID-19 and all causes among selected individual occupations by sex (those aged 20 to 64 years), England and Wales, deaths registered between 9th March and 28th December 2020
.xls .csvFor further information, please contact Health.Data@ons.gov.uk.