Slough is currently the area with the highest number of estimated active cases per million people
A new heatmap shows the areas in Berkshire which have the highest number of active coronavirus cases per million people.
The COVID-19 Symptom Study app provides real-time data on the number of people in each part of the county who are carrying the virus.
However, it should be noted that the figures only account for symptomatic cases of the infection and not cases where people have no symptoms.
According to the data, correct as of 5am on Saturday (July 25) 28,658 people, aged 20 to 69, are currently predicted to have symptomatic coronavirus in the UK.
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Slough is the area with the highest number of active cases in Berkshire, followed by Wokingham and Reading, while Bracknell Forest has the lowest number of cases.
Slough: 548 estimated active cases (per million people)
Wokingham: 456 estimated active cases (per million people)
Reading: 444 estimated active cases (per million people)
Windsor and Maidenhead: 366 estimated active cases (per million people)
West Berkshire: 144 estimated active cases (per million people)
Bracknell Forest: 98 estimated active cases (per million people)
The COVID-19 Symptom Study app has been developed by health science company ZOE and allows users to regularly report on their health.
A description reads: "4,039,931 participants have downloaded the app and are using it to regularly report on their health, making it the largest public science project of its kind anywhere in the world.
"App data is being analysed in collaboration with King's College London researchers.
"By combining your reports with software algorithms, we are able to predict who has the virus and so track COVID infections across the UK."
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The virus is not going away'Tim Spector, professor of genetic epidemiology at King's College London, who is leading the research, said: "After months of seeing the number of COVID cases falling in the UK, we are now seeing those numbers bottom out.
"We aren't surprised to see this happening given the easing of lockdown and more and more people working and socialising.
Help King’s College with their research:
https://covid.joinzoe.com/
