COVID-19 cases and deaths in the funeral director, cemetery and crematorium, mortuary occupation

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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.

For further information, please contact Health.Data@ons.gov.uk.