The Trades Union Congress (TUC) said the pandemic has exposed “huge inequalities” in the labour market, with those in lower-paid jobs often forced to put themselves at risk.
The study examined nearly 8,000 Covid-related deaths from March to December last year among working-age people from 20 to 64, with two-thirds of those men.
For women, the highest rates of deaths were seen in production line jobs and among the caring profession.
Rates of death involving Covid-19 among male and female social care workers in 2020 were “statistically significantly higher” than those for the wider working population, the ONS said.
Among healthcare workers – including doctors, nurses, ambulance staff and hospital porters – men had a statistically significant higher rate of death involving Covid-19 (44.9 deaths per 100,000 males), while for women the rate was not significantly different (17.3 deaths per 100,000).
#ZeroCovid petition: The campaign for a European lockdown requires a socialist perspective
The petition “#ZeroCovid: For a European Shutdown in Solidarity” received its original target of 75,000 signatures within a few days and is now moving towards 100,000. The large support is an expression of the growing opposition to official government policy that puts the profits of big business above saving human lives.
The petition is modelled on the call for the consistent containment of the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe published in December by several hundred renowned scientists in the medical journal
The Lancet and complements it with proposals to cushion the social consequences.
UK records over 21,000 deaths and a million new COVID infections in first three weeks of 2021
Death, infections and hospitalisations due to COVID-19 are surging in Britain. This week the daily death rate record was topped twice in successive days, with 1,610 fatalities on Tuesday and, in a sharp rise, 1,820 on Wednesday. A further 1,290 deaths were announced Thursday, with an eight-year-old child among the latest victims.
A staggering 21,024 people have died in the first three weeks of 2021, with the UK recording the highest death rate on the planet. In the last seven days another 283,388 new infections were recorded, bringing the total this year to more than 1 million (1,054,866).
Scots mums at breaking point trying to juggle work and homeschooling in lockdown warns parenting activist
Anna Whitehouse - aka Mother Pukka - is campaigning for businesses to do more for their parenting workforce before there is a mental health epidemic .
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