The new Covid measures will come in from Saturday, December 19, at 00:01. Covid cases have spiked in West Berks and the rest of Berkshire following the end of the second lockdown and are currently at their highest level since the beginning of the pandemic. The Covid case rate in West Berks now stands at 158.4 cases per 100,000 in the last seven days with available data (December 6-12). This compares to 221.9 in Reading, 185.8 in Wokingham and 222 in Bracknell. However, Windsor & Maidenhead now has the lowest rate in Berkshire. Slough – which was alraedy in tier 3 – still has the highest rate – 353.1. Matt Hancock, announcing the tier changes, said: “As we enter the coldest months we must be vigilant and keep this virus under control.
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This compares to 127 cases the week before (November 25 – December 1). Bracknell s case rate is now above both the average across the South East and in England, placing it in the top 60 across the UK. Elsewhere in Berkshire, there have been 322 cases in Reading with a case rate of 199 per 100,000. This compares to 234 cases the week before. Wokingham cases are also on the rise, with 279 cases – a rate of 163 – compared to 173 cases in the previous week. Meanwhile, West Berkhire’s case rate remains low, in the bottom 50 in the UK, but have also risen significantly. There were 156 cases from December 2 to 8, giving West Berks a comparatively low rate of 98.5, but the week before that, there were just 82 cases, showing case numbers are on the up across the region.
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This compares to 234 cases the week before (November 25 – December 1). Reading’s case rate is now above both the average across the South East and in England, placing 56th across the UK. A week-and-a-half-ago, Reading Borough Council’s (RBC) Public Health Consultant David Munday said Reading was seeing the first signs of a decrease in infection rates. At that time there was a rate of 130 cases per 100,000 people. But there has now been an increase in all age groups in Reading. Elsewhere in Berkshire, Bracknell’s case rate is now even higher than Reading’s, with a rate of 199.9 per 100,000 people from December 2-8.