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Cookham v Coronavirus
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« on: April 09, 2020, 02:02:14 PM » |
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In Berkshire, the number of positive COVID-19 cases now stands at 744 up from 726 yesterday.
This news comes as a total of 7,097 patients have died in hospital after testing positive for coronavirus in the UK as of 5pm on Tuesday, the Department of Health said, up by 938 from 6,159 the day before.
Slough still has the highest number of cases in the county, with 169, followed by 129 in Wokingham and 129 in Reading, Berkshire.
And there are also now 117 cases in Windsor and Maidenhead, 121 in West Berkshire and 79 in Bracknell.
The number of people in the UK tested for coronavirus since the outbreak began – 232,708, as of 9am on April 8 – is the equivalent of around 349 people in every 100,000, or 0.3 per cent of the population.
On average just under 11,400 new people were tested a day in the seven days up to April 8.
In the previous seven days the daily average was just under 8,000.
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