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Title: all of Berkshire moved into Tier 3 Covid-19 restrictions Post by: Cookham v Coronavirus on December 17, 2020, 03:07:02 PM Families across Reading and elsewhere in Berkshire are set to spend Christmas in tier 3 Covid-19 restrictions.
Health Secretary Matt Hancock has this morning confirmed every area of the county will join Slough in Tier 3 from midnight on Saturday (December 19). Five of the six Berkshire local authority areas - Reading, Bracknell Forest, Wokingham, Windsor and Maidenhead and West Berkshire - were previously under Tier 2 restrictions - with only Slough previously in the 'very high alert' category. Matt Hancock said case rates in the south of England are up 46 per cent in the last week while hospital admissions are up by more than a third. He told the Commons: “It is therefore necessary to apply Tier 3 measures across a much wider area of the east and south east of England, including Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Berkshire, Peterborough, the whole of Hertfordshire, Surrey with the exception of Waverley, Hastings and Rother on the Kent border of East Sussex, and Portsmouth, Gosport and Havant in Hampshire.” You can see the latest confirmed cases and infection rates for towns and villages across the county on the links below: Reading Borough Slough Borough Bracknell Forest Wokingham Windsor and Maidenhead https://www.getreading.co.uk/news/reading-berkshire-news/gallery/covid-tier-review-windsor-maidenhead-19472986 West Berkshire Covid-19 case rates are rising in all but one region of England, according to the latest weekly surveillance report from Public Health England. The highest rate is in London, which stood at 319.3 cases per 100,000 people in the week to December 13, up from 199.9 in the previous week. In eastern England the rate has risen from 152.9 to 249.1, while in south-east England the rate has increased from 167.6 to 238.7. The only region that recorded a week-on-week fall was Yorkshire & the Humber, where the rate dropped slightly from 153.6 to 148.5. |