Table 5.
Median attack rates of workplace outbreaks by sector in England, May–October 2020
| Individual outbreaks | Workplaces | Attack rate | ||||||
| Sector | Total cases | Total sites | Cases per site | Number employed at outbreak sites | Cases per 100 employed | |||
| Median | IQR | Median | IQR | Median | IQR | |||
| Close contact services | 22 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 16 | 10 | 16.5 | 6.7 |
| Restaurants and caterers | 49 | 14 | 4 | 2 | 38 | 94 | 10.3 | 14.2 |
| Manufacturers and packers of non-food | 270 | 29 | 8 | 7 | 122 | 269 | 6.7 | 11.1 |
| No setting type assigned | 99 | 15 | 4 | 6 | 56 | 112 | 5.4 | 9.9 |
| Retailers | 115 | 28 | 4 | 2 | 120 | 242 | 4.9 | 16.1 |
| Offices | 133 | 23 | 5 | 4 | 133 | 207 | 4.3 | 15.7 |
| Manufacturers and packers of food | 1384 | 79 | 7 | 12 | 423 | 641 | 2.3 | 7.0 |
| First responders/military sites | 44 | 15 | 3 | 2 | 113 | 422 | 2.1 | 4.0 |
| Other | 109 | 24 | 3 | 3 | 169 | 241 | 2.0 | 10.6 |
| Warehouses | 104 | 12 | 3 | 8 | 579 | 781 | 1.6 | 1.2 |
| Distributors and transporters | 193 | 16 | 4 | 9 | 650 | 693 | 1.2 | 4.7 |
| Primary producers | 127 | 3 | 3 | 61 | * | * | * | * |
| Total | 2649 | 264 | 4 | 6 | 176 | 473 | 3.4 | 11.3 |
*The number of outbreak sites is too small to calculate.