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

There have been about 1.8 million confirmed cases of coronavirus in the UK and more than 60,000 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 the first peak in April, cases started rising again in July, with the rate of growth increasing sharply in September and October, before falling again in November.

But the rate of decline has now slowed and infections are rising again, with a further 18,447 confirmed cases announced by the government on Sunday.

It is thought the infection rate was much higher during the first peak in spring, but testing capacity at the time was too limited to detect the true number of daily cases.

The BBC's Head of Statistics, Robert Cuffe, says cases have been rising steadily in the last week or so in London, the South East and East of England but are falling in the rest of England and Scotland.

Wales has also seen a sharp increase in case numbers.

The darker orange and red areas on the map below show the areas currently seeing the highest number of cases per 100,000 people.

The latest figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS), which is tracking Covid-19 in the community, show a similar mixed picture across the UK.

Figures for the week to 5 December, as England's second lockdown was ending, suggest infection levels were rising in London and the East of England, while they continued to fall in other regions.

Wales saw infections rise during that period, while Northern Ireland saw them fall. In Scotland, numbers stayed roughly the same.

The average number of daily deaths began to rise again in September, following the first peak in April.

On Sunday, the government announced a further 144 deaths.

Of those, 138 deaths were in England, two in Scotland, four in Northern Ireland and none in Wales. Reported numbers are often lower on a Sunday.

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 55,000.

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

The North West, North East and Yorkshire, and the Midlands had the highest number of admissions in October and November.

But in recent weeks, the areas seeing the biggest increases were London, the South East and the East of England.

Restrictions were increased across the UK in an effort to tackle the rising number of cases and they remain tight in most places.

In England, each local authority has been placed in one of three tiers following the end of the recent national lockdown.

In Wales, a range of increased measures have been introduced, including a ban on pubs, restaurants and cafes serving alcohol.

Northern Ireland has now moved from lockdown to a new set of restrictions.

Scotland has a five-tier system of alert levels with different measures in place in different parts of the country.

UK leaders have agreed to allow up to three households to meet indoors during a five-day Christmas period of 23-27 December.

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

Government figures count people who died within 28 days of testing positive for coronavirus.

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 73,000 deaths by 27 November.

The second measure counts all deaths over and above the usual number at the time of year - that figure was nearly 78,000 by 20 November.

The most recent figures available from the ONS are for the fourth week of November, which show there were 14,106 deaths registered in the UK.

Some 3,400 of these deaths involved Covid-19 - 343 more than the week before.

Deaths normally do rise at this time of the year, but the data from the ONS 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 by about 20%.

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.

The government's current estimate for the R number across the whole of the UK is 0.9 to 1.

The estimate for England is 0.8 to 1, Scotland is 0.7 to 0.9, Wales is 0.8 to 1.1 and in Northern Ireland it is 0.9 to 1.1.

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