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

There have been more than two million confirmed cases of coronavirus in the UK and more than 65,000 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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Coronavirus cases are now rising fast again, driven by a new variant of the virus thought to be 70% more transmissible than other strains.

A further 27,052 confirmed cases were announced by the government on Saturday.

After the first peak in April, infections started rising again in July, with the rate of growth increasing sharply in September and October, before falling again in November.

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.

Cases are rising most quickly in London, the South East and East of England.

Infections are also starting to rise again in the Midlands and north of England, which had seen the steepest declines during and just after the November lockdown.

In Wales, confirmed cases are doubling roughly every fortnight, the fastest growth seen in the nations and regions of the UK.

Scotland and Northern Ireland are seeing cases rise too, but more slowly.

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

On Saturday, the government announced a further 534 deaths.

Of those, 441 deaths were in England, 41 in Scotland, 35 in Wales and 17 in Northern Ireland.

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 58,000.

Admissions to hospital in the UK are now back to levels last seen in the spring.

However, 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 have been increased across the UK in an effort to tackle the rising number of cases.

In England, large areas of the south east will be placed into higher 'tier four' measures from midnight on Saturday, and plans to relax restrictions over Christmas have been cancelled. Across the rest of the country, local authorities remain in one of three other tiers following the end of the November lockdown.

The whole of Wales will be placed under lockdown from midnight on Saturday, with plans to lift restrictions over Christmas now limited to just Christmas Day. Scotland will also move to its toughest level four restrictions from Boxing Day and current restrictions will now only be relaxed on Christmas Day. Northern Ireland is now set to move into a new six-week lockdown on Boxing Day.

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 76,000 deaths by 4 December.

The second measure counts all deaths over and above the usual number at the time of year - that figure was more than 79,000 by 4 December.

The most recent figures available from the ONS are for the week ending 4 December, which show there were 13,956 deaths registered in the UK.

Some 3,160 of these deaths involved Covid-19 - 211 fewer 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 15%.

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 1.1 to 1.2.

The estimate for England is 1.1 to 1.3, Scotland is 0.9 to 1.1, Wales is 0.9 to 1.2 and in Northern Ireland it is 1 to 1.2.

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