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<p>The data requested can be found below and is correct as of Friday 19 June.</p><p>Please
note, for the number of staff suspected of having Covid-19 the guidance was changed
on 20 April so that symptomatic staff members could be identified separately. Before
20 April all staff members who were isolating under the PHE guidance were counted
and those who were symptomatic could not be identified specifically. This may have
slightly overestimated the number of symptomatic staff before 20 April. For some regions
this data has been backdated so the total number of staff suspected of having Covid-19
is known.</p><p>On 24 April, the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, announced
the rollout of Covid-19 testing for all essential workers and symptomatic members
of their household, including prison staff.</p><p>From 15 April, due to the sufficient
availability of testing supplies all symptomatic prisoners were tested.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Region</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Staff
suspected of having Covid-19</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Staff confirmed as having
Covid-19</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Staff hospitalised as a result of Covid-19</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Staff
deaths as a result of Covid-19</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Region1</p></td><td><p>1,337</p></td><td><p>150</p></td><td><p>8</p></td><td><p>2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Region2</p></td><td><p>1,126</p></td><td><p>178</p></td><td><p>8</p></td><td><p>-</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Region3</p></td><td><p>1,973</p></td><td><p>210</p></td><td><p>13</p></td><td><p>-</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Region4</p></td><td><p>845</p></td><td><p>54</p></td><td><p>6</p></td><td><p>-</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Region5</p></td><td><p>1,015</p></td><td><p>71</p></td><td><p>9</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Region6</p></td><td><p>2,417</p></td><td><p>91</p></td><td><p>13</p></td><td><p>3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Region7</p></td><td><p>2,482</p></td><td><p>144</p></td><td><p>10</p></td><td><p>2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Total</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>
11,195 </strong></p></td><td><p><strong> 898 </strong></p></td><td><p><strong> 67
</strong></p></td><td><p><strong> 8 </strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Region</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Prisoners
suspected of having Covid-19</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Prisoners confirmed as
having Covid-19</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Prisoners hospitalised as a result
of Covid-19</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Prisoner deaths as a result of Covid-19</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Region
1</p></td><td><p>612</p></td><td><p>81</p></td><td><p>~</p></td><td><p>2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Region
2</p></td><td><p>488</p></td><td><p>58</p></td><td><p>7</p></td><td><p>3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Region
3</p></td><td><p>725</p></td><td><p>118</p></td><td><p>10</p></td><td><p>4</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Region
4</p></td><td><p>455</p></td><td><p>19</p></td><td><p>~</p></td><td><p>3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Region
5</p></td><td><p>252</p></td><td><p>18</p></td><td><p>10</p></td><td><p>5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Region
6</p></td><td><p>513</p></td><td><p>54</p></td><td><p>9</p></td><td><p>-</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Region
7</p></td><td><p>419</p></td><td><p>54</p></td><td><p>8</p></td><td><p>4</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Total</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>
3,464 </strong></p></td><td><p><strong> 402 </strong></p></td><td><p><strong> 51 </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>
21 </strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p><strong>Regions by prison group:</strong></p><p><strong>Region
1 – </strong>Cumbria and Lancashire; Greater Manchester, Merseyside and Cheshire</p><p><strong>Region
2 – </strong>Yorkshire; Tees and Wear</p><p><strong>Region 3 – </strong>North Midlands;
West Midlands; East Midlands</p><p><strong>Region 4 – </strong>Avon and South Dorset;
South Central; Devon and North Dorset</p><p><strong>Region 5 – </strong>Bedfordshire,
Cambridgeshire and Norfolk; Hertfordshire, Essex and Suffolk</p><p><strong>Region
6 – </strong>London; Kent, Surrey and Sussex</p><p><strong>Region 7 – </strong>Long
Term and High Security Estate</p><p> </p><p> </p><p><strong>Notes </strong></p><p>-
Staff suspected of having Covid-19 have been calculated as staff who are on sickness
absence or showing symptoms. There may be other staff with suspected Covid-19 who
are in the self-isolating category not included here.</p><p>- Prisoners suspected
of having Covid-19 have been calculated as prisoners recorded as displaying symptoms.</p><p>-
Some staff or prisoners may be counted twice if they have had two periods of symptoms.</p><p>-
Confirmed staff cases are self-reported.</p><p>- Staff and prisoner hospitalisations
have been calculated as those who have tested positive and have been hospitalised.
The hospitalisation may not have been as a result of Covid-19 in some cases, and there
may be other cases where Covid-19 has not been confirmed which are included here.</p><p>-
These numbers include all historic cases, many of which are now closed.</p><p>- Data
for staff deaths represents individuals that have been confirmed as having Covid-19,
though it is not necessarily the cause of death.</p><p>- Data for prisoner deaths
represents individuals where Covid-19 is suspected to be the cause.</p><p>- These
tables include silver command regions 1 to 7 which cover prisons in England, but also
include 2 STCs and 1 IRC.</p><p>- Staff figures contain both directly and non-directly
employed staff.</p><p>- The symbol ~ denotes suppressed values of 4 or fewer to avoid
the risk of identifying individuals.</p><p>- These figures have been drawn from the
daily HMPPS Covid-19 reports. Care is taken when processing and analysing the returns
but the detail collected is subject to the inaccuracies inherent in any large scale
recording system.</p><p> </p><p>The Ministry of Justice has started publishing a weekly
release of Covid-19 related statistics. This includes confirmed Covid-19 cases in
prisoners and children in custody; and deaths among prisoners and children in custody
where Covid-19 is suspected to be the cause.</p><p>The statistics release can be found
here each Friday: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/hm-prison-and-probation-service-covid-19-statistics"
target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/hm-prison-and-probation-service-covid-19-statistics</a></p><p>Please
note, this publication provides statistics for prisons across England and Wales, the
data in the tables above relates to prisons in England only.</p>
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