THE area of Wokingham which recorded the most Covid-19 cases last week has been revealed.

Public Health England has broken down the data to show the number of confirmed cases recorded in local neighbourhoods, which are known as Middle Super Output Areas (MSOAs).

Between October 13 and October 20, the figures show 143 people tested positive for the virus in the Wokingham borough.

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Lower Earley North was the area with the highest number (19) of confirmed cases.

Shinfield recorded 14 cases, Wokingham Town recorded 13 and 12 people tested positive for the virus in Crowthorne North.

Finchampstead, Spencers Wood and Swallowfield, Arborfield and Twyford West and Charvil each recorded nine cases.

There were eight cases in Earley, while Wokingham East, Winnersh, Barkham and Woosehill and Sonning and Woodley North each recorded seven cases.

In Wokingham North and Hurst, six people tested positive for the virus.

Twyford West recorded four cases and Wokingham West and South recorded three.

It comes after people in Wokingham were warned that Tier 2 restrictions could be imposed in the coming weeks, if the borough’s infection rate continues to rise.

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Wokingham’s latest seven-day infection rate stands at 98.2 cases per 100,000 people.

At a council meeting last week, Meradin Peachey, director of Public Health Berkshire, said if Wokingham’s seven-day rate “continues at the rate of the South East” then it will reach 100 cases per 100,000 people by the end of October.

Councillor Andy Croy (Labour) said: “That’s the level at which a local authority would normally be moved from Tier 1 to Tier 2. We’re going to go to Tier 2.”

More than 1,130 people have tested positive for Covid-19 in Wokingham so far and 157 people have died after contracting the virus.