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

There have been more than 4.3 million confirmed cases of coronavirus in the UK and over 126,000 people have died, government figures show.

However, these figures include only people who have died within 28 days of testing positive for coronavirus.

More than 28 million people in the UK have now had their first dose of a coronavirus vaccine.

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The average number of new daily cases in the UK has fallen substantially in recent weeks, although the decline does appear to have slowed in recent days.

A further 6,397 confirmed cases across the UK were announced by the government on Thursday. This compares with 6,303 new cases reported a week ago.

The number of tests every day has risen by roughly 700,000 since the start of March as schools have been using rapid tests to check pupils for coronavirus, even when they do not have symptoms.

This has led to, on average, about 1,500 new cases being found each day, but it is too soon to say whether the slowing rate of decline is down to more testing or more virus.

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

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

The nations of the UK are moving to the next stages of easing restrictions on everyday life.

On Tuesday, the anniversary of the first lockdown in England, Prime Minister Boris Johnson thanked the British people for their courage during the pandemic, and conceded: "there are many things we wished we had done differently."

From 29 March, people in England will be allowed to meet outside, either with one other household or within the "rule of six", including in private gardens.

Scotland's lockdown will start to be lifted from the beginning of April, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon says, with the "stay at home" rule becoming "stay local" and all children expected to resume school full time by 19 April.

In Wales, which moved to "stay local" advice last week, four people from two different households can meet up outdoors to socialise and non-essential retail will re-open from 12 April.

A phased return to school is under way in Northern Ireland, with all children expected to return by 12 April. Other measures will be reviewed at the end of March.

Almost 29 million people - or half of all UK adults - have now received a first dose of a vaccine and more than 2.7 million people have had a second.

Saturday saw the highest number of vaccinations given in a single day - more than 844,000.

The arrival of a large shipment of Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccines from India has helped resolve recent supply problems - but the NHS has warned that there will be a "significant reduction in weekly supply" of vaccines in April.

In total, more than 24.5 million people in England have had one vaccine dose.

In Scotland, more than 2.2 million people have had their first dose, while the figure is more than 1.3 million in Wales and more than 700,000 in Northern Ireland.

People aged 50 and over are now being offered the vaccine.

The government was on course to meet its target of offering a vaccine to everyone in the top nine priority groups by 15 April.

After that, the rest of the adult population will be vaccinated, with people prioritised by age.

All adults in the UK are expected to be offered their first dose of a coronavirus vaccine by the end of July.

A further 63 deaths across the UK within 28 days of a positive test were reported on Thursday.

This compares with 95 deaths reported on Thursday last week.

Of the most recently reported deaths, 49 were in England, ten were in Scotland and four were in Wales. No deaths were reported in Northern Ireland.

Rules were amended last 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 111,000.

The most recent government figures show 5,122 people with coronavirus in hospital in the UK.

Numbers in mid-January reached almost double the highest point of the peak last spring, but have been falling since then.

London, the South East and the Midlands saw the highest numbers in recent weeks, but patient numbers are falling in all UK nations and regions now.

But everywhere saw more patients in hospital in the winter surge than during the first wave last spring.

When looking at the overall death toll from coronavirus, official figures count deaths in three different ways, each giving a slightly different number.

First, government figures count people who died within 28 days of testing positive for coronavirus - and that total is now over 126,000.

Second, ONS figures include all deaths where coronavirus was mentioned on the death certificate, even if the person had not been tested for the virus. This figure is more than 148,000 deaths, to 12 March.

The third measure counts all deaths over and above the usual number at the time of year - that figure was nearly 123,000 by 12 March.

In total, there were 12,465 deaths registered in the week to 12 March, which is five percent below the average seen in the five years 2015 to 2019.

Of that figure, 1,637 deaths were related to coronavirus - down by 28% from the previous week.

There have now been more deaths involving Covid than "excess" deaths, which means non-Covid deaths must be below usual levels.

This could be because of a milder flu season - resulting from less travel and more social distancing - and because some people who might have died for other reasons had there been no pandemic, died of Covid.

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 0.6 to 0.9.

The estimate for England is currently 0.7 to 0.9. In Scotland it's currently 0.7 to 1.0, in Wales 0.6 to 0.8 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.