Coronavirus cases are spiking all around the world amid the continuing global pandemic, and the U.S. federal agencies are not immune, as logic would suggest.
There are more than 100,000 federal employees have now been or are COVID-19 positive, triple the total of mid-July, DefenseOne reported.
The report suggested almost 3% of government workers have now had COVID-19, including 62,000 armed forces personnel, per the report.
- Defense Department: 14,817 civilian cases, 62,000 military members, and nearly 6,000 contractors.
- U.S. Postal Service: more than 16,000 cases, a 11% spike in the past 10 days alone.
- Veterans Affairs: More than 9,000 veteran cases and more than 7,700 employee cases, including 66 deaths.
- Customs and Border Protection: 2,920 cases.
- Immigration and Customs Enforcement: about 200 employees and more than 7,000 immigrants in ICE detention.
- Transportation Security Administration: 2,685 cases, including more than 500 currently.
- Bureau of Prisons: more than 2,500 employee cases and nearly 20,000 federal prisoner cases, which is about 14% of the federal inmate population.
- State Department: stopped reporting cases in mid-July and had already had more than 1,400 State employee cases, and at least 17 State employee deaths.
- Health and Human Services Department: 780 employee cases.
- Internal Revenue Service: 1,139 employee cases.
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