Coronavirus in Berkshire round up - Wednesday, November 11

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MORE than 100 new cases of coronavirus have been confirmed in Berkshire in the past 24 hours, according to latest figures.

Public Health England has recorded 123 lab-confirmed cases in the past 24 hours in areas including Reading, West Berkshire, Bracknell Forest, Wokingham, Slough and Windsor and Maidenhead.

These figures, correct as of 6.18pm on Tuesday, November 10, bring the county's lab-confirmed positive Covid-19 tests total to 10,218.

The local breakdown for the past 24 hours as follows:

Reading - 17 cases, 1,966 total.

West Berkshire - 19 cases, 1,282 total.

Wokingham - 26 cases, 1,593 total.

Slough - 21 cases, 2,417 total.

Windsor and Maidenhead - 19 cases, 1,846 total.

There have now been 1,233,775 people across the UK who have tested positive for Covid-19.

The total number of deaths - those with Covid-19 listed on the death certificate - across the UK has now reached 61,648.

Locally, there was one death recorded in the past 24 hours in Berkshire (in Bracknell Forest), taking the total deaths across Berkshire to 807.

In today's national coronavirus news:

England's deputy chief medical officer Professor Jonathan Van-Tam said he believed a vaccine should be distributed according to clinical priority rather than allowing the wealthy to be able to pay privately to jump the queue.

He told a Downing Street briefing: "One of the things I like about the NHS is that it's there for everybody, irrespective of their level of wealth or who they are in society. That's a really important principle to me, personally."

Prof Van-Tam said he was not aware of any plans to contemplate an arrangement where people could pay privately to get a vaccine first, although "that is a ministerial decision" rather than one for clinicians.