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 71,000 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 much more easily transmissible than other strains.

A further 53,135 confirmed cases were announced by the government on Tuesday, the highest daily figure since the pandemic began and a jump of more than 11,000 on Monday's figure.

The high numbers are partly down to a lag in reporting over the holiday period but, according to Public Health England, are "largely a reflection of a real increase".

It is thought the infection rate was much higher than was evident from the reported number of cases during the first peak in spring. Testing capacity was too limited to detect the true number of daily cases.

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

On Monday, Dr Yvonne Doyle, medical director at Public Health England, said: "This very high level of infection is of growing concern at a time when our hospitals are at their most vulnerable."

Although the new variant of coronavirus is now spreading more rapidly than the original version, it is not believed to be more deadly.

Cases are rising most quickly in Wales where about one in 60 people have the virus, according to the Office for National Statistics. Cases in Northern Ireland are also up.

London, the South East and East of England have the highest estimated rate of people with coronavirus in England.

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 Tuesday, the government announced a further 414 deaths.

Of those, 360 deaths were in England, 33 in Wales, 14 in Northern Ireland and 7 in Scotland.

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 62,000.

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

Hospitals in England are now treating more Covid-19 patients than they did during the April peak.

For the UK as a whole, on 22 December the total number of inpatients with Covid-19 was 400 below the first wave peak. Though full data for all the nations has not been published, in England alone the total has gone up by more than 2,300 since then.

On Tuesday, NHS England's Chief Health Executive Sir Simon Stevens said that health workers were "back in the eye of the storm" as coronavirus cases rise.

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.

It's hoped that a rapid vaccination programme will help to bring down hospitalisations. On Thursday, the Department of Health said that more than 600,000 people in the UK had received the first dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine.

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 and east are now under new, higher "tier four" measures, with plans to relax restrictions over the holiday period cancelled.

Across the rest of the country, some other local authorities have been moved up a tier - with the Isles of Scilly the only area remaining in tier one.

The whole of Wales has been placed under lockdown. Plans to lift restrictions over the holiday period were limited to Christmas Day.

Scotland also moved to its toughest level four restrictions on Boxing Day, with a relaxation of restrictions also limited to Christmas Day.

Northern Ireland began a new six-week lockdown on Boxing Day.

More than 40 countries have banned arrivals from the UK because of concerns over the spread of a new variant of the disease.

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 79,000 deaths by 11 December.

The second measure counts all deaths over and above the usual number at the time of year - that figure was more than 81,000 by 11 December.

The most recent figures available from the ONS are for the week ending 11 December, which show there were 13,910 deaths registered in the UK.

Some 3,062 of these deaths involved Covid-19 - 98 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 13%.

Overall, the figures are still well below the peak of 9,495 Covid-19 related 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 1.3.

The estimate for England is 1.1 to 1.4, Scotland is 0.9 to 1.1, Wales is 1.0 to 1.3 and in Northern Ireland it is 1.05 to 1.25.

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