Covid-19 in the UK: How many coronavirus cases are there in your area?

There have been more than 1.2 million confirmed cases of coronavirus in the UK and 49,000 people have died, government figures show.

However, these figures include only people who have died within 28 days of testing positive for coronavirus and other measures suggest the number of deaths is higher.

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After a steady decline since the first peak in April, confirmed cases started rising again in July, with the rate of growth increasing sharply in September and October.

The government announced a further 20,412 confirmed cases on Tuesday.

But the latest figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) suggest the increase in infections may be stabilising around the UK, with the rate of increase slower than in recent weeks.

Approximately one in 90 people in homes in England had coronavirus in the week ending 31 October, according to figures from the ONS.

In Scotland and Wales, about one in 110 people had the virus. One in 75, about 25,000 people, had the virus in Northern Ireland.

Although hospital admissions for Covid-19 remain below the levels seen in the spring, there are big regional disparities.

With rising admissions, there have been warnings that hospitals will have to cut back core services.

Daily hospital admissions are now beginning to stabilise or show signs of a slow decline in several nations and regions, including the North West, London, Scotland and Northern Ireland.

Cases have risen across large parts of England, with other spikes in areas of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.

The orange areas on the map below are those currently seeing the highest number of cases per 100,000 people.

Restrictions have been tightened across the UK in recent weeks.

In England, a new four-week lockdown started on Thursday - replacing the three-tier system until 2 December.

On Monday, Wales ended a two-week 'firebreak' lockdown which began in the last week of October.

Northern Ireland also introduced additional restrictions last month which are due to end on Friday 13 November.

In Scotland there is now a five-tier system of virus alert levels with different measures in place in different parts of the country. The tiers are numbered from zero to four, with level four requiring the introduction of lockdown restrictions for that area.

Deaths have been rising again since the beginning of September following their first peak in April.

The government announced 532 further deaths across the UK on Tuesday, the highest daily figure since 12 May.

Of those deaths, 460 were in England, 39 in Scotland, 22 in Wales - and 11 in Northern Ireland.

Three times as many people have died from Covid-19 than from flu and pneumonia in England and Wales this year, according to official figures.

Between January and August 2020, there were 48,168 deaths due to Covid-19 compared to 13,600 from pneumonia. Only 394 were due to flu.

Rules were amended over the summer to include deaths in the coronavirus total only if they occurred within 28 days of a positive test. Previously in England, all deaths after a positive test were included.

England has seen the majority of UK deaths from Covid-19. Using the 28-day cut-off, there have been more than 40,000.

When looking at the overall death toll from coronavirus, official figures count deaths in three different ways.

Government figures count people who tested positive for coronavirus and died within 28 days.

But there are two other measures.

The first includes all deaths where coronavirus was mentioned on the death certificate, even if the person had not been tested for the virus. The most recent figures suggest there had been more than 60,000 deaths by 23 October.

The most recent figures available from the Office for National Statistics are for the final week of October, which show there were 12,501 deaths registered in the UK.

Some 1,597 of these deaths involved Covid-19 - up from 1,126 the week before.

Deaths normally do rise at this time of the year, but the data from the Office for National Statistics and its counterparts in Scotland and Northern Ireland show the second wave of the virus has pushed the death rate above the average seen over the past five years.

Overall, the figures are still well below the peak of 9,495 deaths recorded in a week, reached on 17 April.

The "R number" is the average number of people an infected person will pass the disease on to.

If R is below one, then the number of people contracting the disease will fall; if it is above one, the number will grow.

On Friday, the government's estimate for the R number across the whole of the UK was unchanged at between 1.1 and 1.3.

But the Sage advisory group cautioned against focus on the UK-wide figure.

"Given the increasingly localised approach to managing the epidemic particularly between nations, UK level estimates are less meaningful than previously," it said.

The estimate for England is 1.1 to 1.3, while for Scotland it is 0.9 to 1.1. The estimate for Wales is 1.0 to 1.3 and in Northern Ireland it is a little above 0.7.

The government has said in the past that the R number is one of the most important factors in making policy decisions.