Coronavirus: Berkshire school closed for deep-clean after staff member infected

An infant school in Berkshire is being deep cleaned after one of its members of staff tested positive for coronavirus.

It takes the total number of UK cases to 23.

Willow Bank Infant School, in Woodley, tweeted "We understand that this will worry many of you, and can reassure you that we have taken advice from Public Health England.

It added: "The school will be shut for some days to allow for a deep clean and to ensure that the risks of infection remain low."

Wokingham Borough Council is taking a lead on the outbreak and is offering adviceon self-isolation and prevention measures:

sign at Haslemere Health Centre in Surrey, which has closed temporarily for cleaning Credit: PA

It comes as health officials try to discover how a man from Surrey caught the virus, after he became the first person to be infected within the UK.

The man, who is being treated at Guy's and St Thomas' Hospital in central London, had not been abroad recently - unlike the other cases in the UK.

Officials are trying to trace people who had contact with him. Haslemere Health Centre, which he had attended, has now reopened after "deep cleaning".

A pub in Haslemere, called the Prince of Wales, also closed for a deep clean as "a precautionary measure". A sign outside the pub said that "a customer who visited us has tested positive for coronavirus".