This compares to 234 cases the week before (November 25 – December 1). Reading’s case rate is now above both the average across the South East and in England, placing 56th across the UK. A week-and-a-half-ago, Reading Borough Council’s (RBC) Public Health Consultant David Munday said Reading was seeing the first signs of a decrease in infection rates. At that time there was a rate of 130 cases per 100,000 people. But there has now been an increase in all age groups in Reading. Elsewhere in Berkshire, Bracknell’s case rate is now even higher than Reading’s, with a rate of 199.9 per 100,000 people from December 2-8.