TUC analysis | Employers 'massively under-reporting' coronavirus work-related deaths

A new report from the Trades Union Congress (TUC) has claimed that the number of people who have died from exposure to coronavirus in the workplace is being “massively under-reported” by employers.

Analysis from the union highlighted a large difference between coronavirus work-related deaths reported by firms and data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) and Public Health England.

For example, between April 2020 and April 2021, the ONS reported that more than 15,000 people of working age had died from coronavirus.

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Despite this, according to reports from employers, just 387 of these deaths came from staff contracting the virus in the workplace.