Latest Berkshire coronavirus cases by area as county's total reaches 75,000

A further 287 cases of coronavirus have been confirmed in Berkshire in the last 24 hours - with Reading again seeing the biggest increase.

The latest official figures published by Public Health England today (Tuesday, August 10), show that the total number of cases across the county since the start of the pandemic is now 75,218.

Reading recorded 76 of the new infections, with 53 in Slough and 49 in West Berkshire.

Wokingham and WIndsor and Maidenhead both had 48 while the smallest increase - 13 - was in Bracknell Forest.

Today's total was just one more than yesterday, when 286 more infections were found.

Nationally, the Government said a further 146 people had died within 28 days of testing positive for Covid-19 as of Tuesday, bringing the UK total to 130,503.

This is the highest number of daily reported deaths since March 12, when 175 were reported.

Separate figures published by the Office for National Statistics show there have been 155,000 deaths registered in the UK where Covid-19 was mentioned on the death certificate.

As of 9am on Tuesday, there had been a further 23,510 lab-confirmed Covid-19 cases in the UK, the Government said.

Government data up to August 9 shows that of the 86,780,455 Covid jabs given in the UK, 47,091,889 were first doses, a rise of 32,250 on the previous day.

Some 39,688,566 were second doses, an increase of 137,028.

Here are the latest rolling seven-day coronavirus infection rates per 100,000 people in Berkshire for the week ending August 5:

Reading: 300 (up from 294.4)
Bracknell Forest: 240 (up from 237.6)
Windsor and Maidenhead: 245.9 (up from 234)
Wokingham: 225.9 (up from 221.3)
West Berkshire: 236 (up from 218.3)
Slough: 242.7 (up from 233.3)

This is the latest breakdown of confirmed cases for each area of Berkshire since the start of the pandemic, plus the change in the last 24 hours (in brackets):

Reading: 14,981 (+76)
Windsor and Maidenhead: 11,333 (+48)
Slough: 18,217 (+53)
Bracknell Forest: 9,982 (+13)
Wokingham: 11,627 (+48)
West Berkshire : 9,078 (+49)