MORE than 46,000 people have tested positive for coronavirus in Berkshire.

In the past 24 hours, Public Health England has recorded 501 lab-confirmed cases in areas including Reading, Bracknell, Wokingham, West Berkshire, Slough and Windsor and Maidenhead.

These figures, correct as of Sunday, January 24 at 4pm, bring the county's lab-confirmed positive Covid-19 tests total to 46,529, according to Public Health England.

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The local breakdown for the past 24 hours as follows:

Reading - 125 cases, 9,001 total

West Berkshire - 52 cases, 5,103 total

Bracknell -56 cases, 5,923 total

Wokingham - 58 cases, 6,940 total

Slough - 151 cases, 12,442 total

Windsor and Maidenhead - 59 cases, 7,120 total

There have now been 3,647,463 people across the UK who have tested positive for Covid-19.

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

Reading - 615.7

West Berkshire - 265.7

Bracknell - 361.5

Wokingham - 318.5

Slough - 879.4

Windsor and Maidenhead - 346.1

This means for the second day in a row, the seven-day rate per 100,000 people across Berkshire has decreased.

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In today's national coronavirus news:

Government data up to January 23 shows of the 6,822,981 jabs given in the UK so far, 6,353,321 were first doses – a rise of 491,970 on the previous day’s figures.

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Some 469,660 were second doses, an increase of 1,043 on figures released the previous day.Based on the latest figures, an average of 393,031 first doses of vaccine would be needed each day in order to meet the Government’s target of 15 million first doses by February 15