Berkshire coronavirus: Covid cases nears 10,000

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Five more people have died of coronavirus in Berkshire, the latest daily figures show.

Three of the deaths were at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, which serves Berkshire, while the other two were at Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust.

A total of 186 new cases have also been recorded in the county, the official data reveals.

The most new cases were recorded in Windsor and Maidenhead.

Across the UK in the last 24 hours, 378 people have died of the virus.

That increase makes the latest daily total one of the worst days since May.

It comes after 492 deaths were recorded on Wednesday.

This is how the latest figures break down in terms of cases for each area of Berkshire:

Reading  : 1,813 cases  (increase of 35)
Slough  : 2,184 cases  ( increase of 45)
Wokingham  : 1,426 cases  (increase of 22)
West Berkshire  : 1,174 cases  (increase of 17)
Windsor  and Maidenhead: 1,698 cases  (increase of 51)
Bracknell Forest  : 1,005 cases  (increase of 16)
This is the latest data on the total number of deaths at NHS trusts in and around Berkshire:

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust: 398  ( two new deaths )
Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust: 230 ( three new deaths )
Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust: 21 ( no new deaths )
It comes after Boris Johnson said the four-week coronavirus lockdown in England will be enough to have a “real impact” on the growth of the disease.

The Prime Minister told a Downing Street news conference that while many people were “anxious, weary and fed up” the measures were strictly time-limited.

“The advice I have received suggests that four weeks is enough for these measures to make a real impact,” he said.

These rules will expire and on December 2 we plan to move back to a tiered approach. There is light at the end of the tunnel.

“These are difficult times. While it pains me to have to ask once again once again for so many to give up so much, I know we can get through this.”

Mr Johnson also continued to express hope that science would prove effective in tackling coronavirus.

He told the conference: “I think that the real progress we’re getting to see is with science, and as (England’s chief medical officer) Chris Whitty often says, there isn’t a virus that has threatened humanity that we haven’t beaten by science.

“The number of shots that are currently raining down on the goal is very, very considerable from the scientists and the doctors, and one of them, I believe, is going to get to get through, and get through very soon.”