About four thousand federal employees have contracted coronavirus on the job, with those workers seeking disability compensation.  Of those cases, sixty have proven fatal, a new report from the Washington Post states.

The information comes partly from a Department of Labor Office of Inspector General report auditing workers compensation claims.  The July 6th report states that the number of federal employees infected on the job would jump to 6,000 within weeks.

The government has received 4,011 disability claims relating to the coronavirus.  Only seven of those claims have been denied, with 1,623 granted.  Twenty-five have been withdrawn, and the rest are awaiting adjudication.

The federal departments primarily hit by these claims are Justice, Homeland Security and Veterans Affairs.

The Post reports, however, that the Department of Defense seems to be the hardest hit agency:

As of Friday, the largest, the Defense Department, reported 5,096 total infections among its roughly 750,000 civilian employees dating to March, of whom 257 were currently hospitalized and 1,841 recovered, with 32 deaths.

Reporting separately, other agencies have catalogued high numbers of cases:  Customs & Border Protection had 1,590 cases and eight deaths; the Transportation Security Administration had 1,315 cases and six deaths; and the Bureau of Prisons reported 397 cases and one death.  BoP also noted 648 employees recovered from the disease.

It should be noted that these figures were compiled prior to the Trump Administration deploying federal agents from around the nation to quash protests against police violence in cities like Washington, DC; Portland, Oregon; and Seattle, Washington.