UK local authorities that experience high sustained levels of COVID-19 prevalence are termed areas of enduring prevalence (AEP) according to SAGE (2021). A study was carried out as part of Theme 3 of the PROTECT National Core Study on Transmission and Environment, to...
This paper, produced by researchers from Theme 1 of the PROTECT study, investigates the relative frequency and size of COVID-19 outbreaks in different workplaces and industrial sectors in England. Using UK Health Security Agency data from 18 May to 12 October 2020,...
The need to protect workers from COVID-19 is a persistent issue with debate around the degree to which SARS-CoV-2 transmission occurs in the workplace and which occupations are most affected, with calls for COVID-19 to be classified as an occupational disease....
This study aimed to describe the proportion of deaths from Covid-19 in a range of occupational groups, how those proportions compare to a ‘non-essential’ worker group, and whether the proportionate odds have changed over the pandemic (January 2020 – October 2021), in...
Food processing facilities represent critical infrastructure that have stayed open during much of the COVID-19 pandemic. Understanding the burden of COVID-19 in this sector is thus important to help reduce the potential for workplace infection in future...
This paper, published in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, produced by researchers from Theme 1 of the PROTECT COVID-19 National Core Study, discusses workplace-related outbreaks of COVID-19. The manufacturing sector presents a...
Although many people infected with COVID-19 experience no or mild symptoms, some individuals can develop severe illness and may die, particularly older people and those with underlying medical problems.Providing evidence-based interventions to prevent COVID-19 has...
Age-standardized mortality rates for taxi drivers, chauffeurs, bus and coach drivers show that public transport workers were at high risk at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. Nevertheless, the public transport sector was required to continue services throughout...
This paper, published in the The Lancet Regional Health - Europe, and produced by researchers as part of Theme 3 of the PROTECT study, uses data from electronic contact diaries submitted by participants in the Virus Watch project between November 2020 and November...
This paper, published in the Journal of Transport and Health and produced by researchers from Theme 3 of the PROTECT study, reviews research to date on transmission of the COVID-19 virus on public transport, and the effectiveness of control measures implemented by...
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