An earlier lockdown would “seemingly hold saved” the lives of London bus drivers who died with coronavirus, essentially based on a look.

University College London (UCL) become asked by Transport for London (TfL) to look at the excessive loss of life price of London bus workers.

Thirty-four London bus workers died with Covid-19, including 29 drivers – 3.5 cases the run of loads of roles.

An earlier lockdown “would seemingly hold saved more lives,” the document found.

Professor Sir Michael Marmot, who led the look, talked about: “Our review explicitly means that lockdown become the predominant part that saved bus drivers’ lives.

“Because London become an early centre of the pandemic, it is miles seemingly that the elevated risk amongst London bus drivers is expounded to publicity.”

The document become commissioned by TfL amid major concerns over the deaths of bus drivers within the capital.

Strict guidelines limiting of us’s actions to contend with the unfold of coronavirus were launched on 23 March.

Since 15 June it has been compulsory to wear a face preserving while travelling on public transport in England.

The mortality price in male London bus drivers feeble 20-64 become 3.5 cases higher than men of the an analogous age in all occupations in England and Wales.

UCL’s Institute of Properly being Equity found drivers were at risk due to of their job. Many additionally had underlying neatly being instances corresponding to excessive blood stress.

‘Roadmap for motion’

The document found bus workers were more seemingly to are residing within the boroughs hardest hit by the virus, and to be from black and ethnic minority teams, which “are more at risk of fixing into severely ill and demise from COVID-19”.

The 2nd section of the review will explore the variations in an infection and loss of life rates between frontline transport workers and London’s population mainly.

Lilli Matson, TfL’s head of neatly being and atmosphere, talked about: “We now had been devastated by the tragic deaths of our colleagues at some level of this pandemic.

“The ideas about this document present a roadmap for motion to extra offer protection to bus drivers.

“It is obvious from this share of labor and others that there are certain characteristics that score of us more at risk of coronavirus.”