BOSSES are “massively under-reporting” the number of Covid-19 deaths involving workers who contracted the virus on the job, the TUC said today.

In a damning report, it warned that the system of reporting coronavirus deaths is “letting bad bosses off the hook” and that under-reporting has badly undermined health and safety enforcement during the pandemic.

The study is based on data from the government’s Office for National Statistics (ONS) and Public Health England.