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

There have been almost 4.4 million confirmed cases of coronavirus in the UK and more than 127,000 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 33 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 since the start of the year, but the rate of decline has slowed in recent weeks.

Two weeks ago the government changed the way cases in England are reported. Cases that were identified using a lateral flow test have been removed if the person subsequently took a PCR test and tested negative within three days.

This means 8,010 cases were removed from the case data, causing the overall total to fall.

A further 2,396 confirmed cases in the UK were announced by the government on Wednesday.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson said the UK was continuing to make progress against Covid. He said the majority of scientific experts believed there would be another wave at some stage this year and the UK would have to learn to live with the disease.

Last month infection levels in secondary school-age children in England increased slightly after they returned to school. But the Office for National Statistics (ONS) says this trend does not appear to have continued.

According to the ONS, which tests a random sample of adults and children in the community, infections have decreased across the UK - in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.

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 darker blue 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.

England saw a further easing of restrictions last week, with non-essential shops, gyms and hairdressers allowed to re-open, along with outdoor spaces at pubs and restaurants.

Northern Ireland also lifted stay at home restrictions, with people asked to "stay local" and continue to work from home where they can. Up to ten people from two households are now able to meet outdoors, and the remaining school year groups 8-11 returned to classrooms.

In Wales, a drop in Covid cases has prompted the government to bring forward a further relaxation of the lockdown rules - from Saturday 24 April, six people from six households can meet outdoors and pubs and restaurants can serve customers al-fresco.

In Scotland, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has confirmed all shops can re-open from next Monday, 26 April, and pubs and restaurants can open until 20:00 BST indoors, but without alcohol.

More than 33 million people - or more than half of all UK adults - have now received a first dose of a vaccine and over 10 million people have had a second.

The government has often described vaccine supplies as "lumpy" and the NHS has warned that there will be a "significant reduction in weekly supply" of vaccines in April.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson says the UK is "building up long-term UK manufacturing capabilities" for vaccines, with Novavax set to produce a jab in the North East.

People have now started to receive the Moderna jab, the third vaccine to be given in the UK.

In total, more than 27.7 million people in England have had one vaccine dose.

In Scotland, more than 2.7 million people have had their first dose, while the figure is about 1.7 million in Wales and almost 870,000 in Northern Ireland.

More second doses are being given than first doses now, as people in earlier priority groups receive their booster injections.

Saturday 17 April saw the largest number of second doses in a single day with 499,635 jabs given.

People over the age of 45 are now being invited to get a Covid jab, after the government announced it had reached its target of offering a first vaccination to all over 50s and those in high risk groups before its target date of 15 April.

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

However, the government has announced that those under the age of 30 will be offered an alternative to the AstraZeneca vaccine, after new evidence linking the vaccine to rare blood clots.

A further 22 deaths across the UK within 28 days of a positive test were reported on Wednesday.

There were 20 deaths in England, one in Scotland, one in Northern Ireland and none reported in Wales.

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 nearly 112,000.

The most recent government figures show 2,004 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 the winter peak, but patient numbers have fallen in all UK nations and regions in recent months.

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 more than 127,000.

According to ONS figures released on Tuesday, the UK has now seen more than 150,000 deaths - that's all those deaths where coronavirus was mentioned on the death certificate even if the person had not been tested for the virus.

The third measure counts all deaths over and above the usual number at the time of year - that figure was more than 119,000 by 9 April.

In total, there were 10,397 deaths registered in the week to 9 April - 1,301 fewer than the five-year average. But the week to 9 April included Easter bank holiday Monday, meaning fewer deaths would have been registered than in a normal week.

Of the total deaths, 422 were related to coronavirus - down by 28 on 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 latest estimate for England is 0.7 to 1.0. In Scotland it's currently 0.8 to 1.0, in Wales it is 0.6 to 0.9 and in Northern Ireland it around 0.95 to 1.4.

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

21 April: Due to data processing errors incorrect figures were displayed for weekly case numbers for Welsh local authorities in the postcode search and map