Health

THE FIRST test results have come back for those who came into contact with a Woodley primary school staff member who caught the coronavirus while on holiday. The affected staff...

In Parliament yesterday, Reading East MP Matt Rodda raised the outbreak of coronavirus at Willow Bank Infant School in a question to the health secretary. Mr Rodda wanted more details...

SUPERMARKETS and chemists are running out of stocks of hand sanitisers as people look to boost their personal hygiene routines in the wake of the coronavirus. And shelves in stores...

SCHOOLS are being told not to close over suspected or confirmed cases of coronavirus unless instructed to do so by Public Health England.  The new advice comes as the Department...

THE closure of three borough schools is purely precautionary and there is no indication that either site poses a risk.  That’s the verdict of Wokingham Borough Council’s director of children’s...

AN MP has expressed his concern for the person who has the coronavirus, and for the school. Matt Rodda’s Reading East constituency includes parts of Woodley and Earley, where Willow...

A THIRD Wokingham borough school is to be closed after a case of coronavirus was diagnosed. Parents at Willow Bank Junior School, which is next to the Infant School in...

A SECOND Wokingham borough school is to be closed after a case of coronavirus was diagnosed. Parents of Aldryngton Primary School in Earley are being told to keep their children...

WOKINGHAM BOROUGH COUNCIL says it is doing everything it can to minimise the spread of coronavirus across the borough. Measures include the actions taken at Willow Bank Infants School in...

NEW MEASURES are to be introduced by the government in a bid to try and halt the spread of coronavirus in the UK. So far, 23 cases have been confirmed,...