MORE than 500 people have tested positive for Covid-19 in Berkshire in the last 24 hours.

Public Health England has recorded 575 new lab-confirmed cases in the past 24 hours, in areas including Reading, Bracknell, Wokingham, West Berkshire, Slough and Windsor and Maidenhead.

Theses figures, correct as of Sunday, July 18, at 4pm, bring the latest total for the county to 67,176.

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The local breakdown for the past 24 hours as follows:

Bracknell Forest - 119 cases, 8,830 total

Wokingham - 112 cases, 10,137 total

Reading - 117 cases, 13,384 total

West Berkshire - 80 cases, 7,788 total

Windsor and Maidenhead - 88 cases, 10,005 total

Slough - 59 cases, 17,032 total

A total of 5,433,939 people in the UK have tested positive for Covid-19.

The latest seven-day rate per 100,000 people locally are as follows:

Bracknell Forest - 370.5

Wokingham - 232

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Reading - 278.2

West Berkshire - 215.2

Slough - 179.9

Windsor and Maidenhead - 47

In today's national Covid news:

Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer described the Government’s plans to lift “all restrictions” from Monday as a “mistake” and the “wrong thing to do”.

He said: “I’ve said consistently that lifting all restrictions in one go tomorrow is a mistake, it’s reckless.

“We can already see that the infection rates are going through the roof, we know what’s going to happen with hundreds of thousands of people being asked to self isolate.

“The Prime Minister is essentially putting the whole nation into a car, pressing the accelerator and taking the seatbelt off.”

He said Boris Johnson’s “reckless decisions” were causing “utter chaos”.