State health officials are now tracking COVID testing and death data among residents who work in the commercial sex industry, according to the Massachusetts daily Chapter 93 data report.
The Chapter 93 law, approved last year, seeks to address disparities in COVID treatment by requesting certain demographic information be included in testing and case data local health boards share with the Department of Public Health.
Officials told the Boston Herald that they first included the category on Dec. 3 after a Massachusetts resident recently tested for COVID-19 identified as a commercial sex worker. No new test results, cases or deaths have been reported among sex workers over the last 24 hours, data shows.
“Because of small numbers of reports with that occupation, no additional information is available,” a spokesperson told the newspaper.
State health officials track COVID data across a range of occupations, from medical workers and emergency responders to food service workers, construction workers, teachers, plumbers, among others.
Health officials confirmed 4,283 new cases of COVID-19 on Sunday, including the first case of the highly contagious variant of the respiratory infection identified in the United Kingdom. Sixty-seven deaths were also reported.
The person who tested positive for the new strain is a Boston woman in her 20s who became ill after traveling to the U.K., DPH officials said Sunday.
At least 448,311 Massachusetts residents have contracted the virus statewide and 13,372 have died since the pandemic began.
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