NO more cases of coronavirus have been recorded in Reading, the latest official figures show.

Public Health England figures show that 596 people had been confirmed as testing positive for Covid-19 by 9am Thursday morning (June 25) in Reading, in line with the same time on Wednesday.

A week before, there were 594 cases.

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The stable number of cases over the last 24 hours is similar to the picture across the UK as a whole, where the rate of increase was 0.4 per cent.

They were among the 22,734 cases recorded across the South East, a figure which rose by 66 over the period.

Cumulative case counts include patients who are currently unwell, have recovered and those that have died.

Across the UK, 307,980 people had tested positive for coronavirus as of 9am on Thursday, up from 306,862 at the same point on Wednesday, Department of Health and Social Care figures show.

As of 5pm on Wednesday, 43,230 had died.