A FEW Slough wards have recorded a small jump in coronavirus cases, according to Berkshire Public Health (BPH).
BPH publishes a weekly Covid-19 briefing and breaks down the data by electoral ward.
The data was published on March 31 and shows the number of reported cases and their infection rate between March 20 and 26.
BPH has rounded the data for each ward to the nearest five in order to protect the identity of individuals.
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Most wards saw no change in their weekly figures – but a slight few have recorded a small uptick in cases.
Chalvey, Cippenham Green, Cippenham Meadows, Langley St Mary’s, and Upton all recorded a small jump in coronavirus cases, according to BPH.
However, Britwell and Northborough, Colnbrook with Poyle, and Elliman’s infection rate has gone down slightly compared with previous data.
Confirmed cases in Slough and their weekly rate per 100,000 population:
- Baylis and Stoke – 10 (no change from previous week). Weekly rate of 101
- Britwell and Northborough – 10 (down 5). Weekly rate of 93
- Central – 10 (no change). Weekly rate of 93
- Chalvey – 15 (up 5). Weekly rate of 116
- Cippenham Green – 15 (up 10). Weekly rate of 149
- Cippenham Meadows – 10 (up 5). Weekly rate of 83
- Colnbrook with Poyle – 5 (down 5). Weekly rate of 76
- Elliman – 5 (down 5). Weekly rate of 48
- Farnham – 10 (no change). Weekly rate of 91
- Foxborough – 5 (no change). Weekly rate of 129
- Haymill and Lynch Hill – 5 (no change). Weekly rate of 51
- Langley Kedermister – 5 (no change). Weekly rate of 48
- Langley St Mary’s – 10 (up 10). Weekly rate 90
- Upton – 10 (up 5). Weekly rate of 106
- Wexham Lea – 5 (no change). Weekly rate of 48
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According to the BPH weekly briefing, Slough has had 118 new cases of Covid-19 over the last seven days (March 19 – 25) and these make up one per cent of all the borough’s cases across the whole pandemic.
This brings the total of confirmed cases in Slough to 15,133 with a current weekly rate is 83.6 per 100,000.
The rate for people aged 60 and over is 32.6 per 100,000, a 56 per cent decrease in the last week.
Sadly, five deaths were recorded in the week March 13 – 19, taking the Covid-19 death toll to 335 in the borough.
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