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

There have been 4.5 million confirmed cases of coronavirus in the UK and nearly 128,000 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 40 million people in the UK have now had their first dose of a coronavirus vaccine.

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After a substantial decline since the start of the year, the average number of daily cases is now slowly rising.

A further 5,683 confirmed cases in the UK were announced by the government on Monday.

Several areas are experiencing a rise in cases linked to the variant first detected in India and some scientific advisors have urged caution over lifting restrictions in England on 21 June amid warnings of a 'third wave'. Health Secretary Matt Hancock has said the government is open to delaying the final lifting of restrictions, if necessary.

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

In addition, the government recently changed the way cases in England are reported. Cases identified using a lateral flow test have been removed if the person subsequently took a PCR (polymerase chain reaction) test - for which swabs are sent to a lab for analysis - and tested negative within three days.

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

All nations in the UK have been easing restrictions on everyday life in recent weeks. You can use our postcode look-up to check what the rules are where you live.

The so-called Indian variant, named the Delta variant by the World Health Organization, is now the main type of coronavirus in the UK.

Scientists believe that it spreads faster than the Kent variant (now named the Alpha variant) that was most common earlier this year.

They also think that the first dose of a vaccine doesn't work as well against this type of coronavirus as it would against the old Kent variant. But that worry fades once you have had two jabs.

The areas where the Delta variant is most common include Bolton, Blackburn with Darwen and Bedford, as the map below shows - but more and more places are seeing evidence of its spread.

Just over 40 million people - three quarters of all UK adults - have now received a first dose of a vaccine and almost 28 million people, or half of all adults, have had a second.

In total, more than 33 million people in England, over three million in Scotland, two million in Wales and one million in Northern Ireland have had their first dose.

While more second doses are now being given than first - with people in earlier priority groups receiving booster injections - the number of first doses was higher at the end of May than it was in April.

First vaccines are now being offered to people aged 30 and above in England and Scotland and over-18s in Northern Ireland and Wales. Mr Hancock says people in England aged 25-29 will be offered a Covid vaccine from Tuesday.

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

The government had previously announced that those under the age of 40 would be offered an alternative to the AstraZeneca vaccine, after evidence emerged linking the vaccine to rare blood clots.

On Monday, one death was reported in the UK, in Wales.

No deaths were reported in England, Scotland or 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 112,000.

The most recent government figures show 932 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 fallen since then - although the decline has slowed recently.

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.

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

However, the pandemic has left hospitals facing a huge backlog, putting lives at risk, patient groups and staff are warning.

In-depth analysis by BBC News has found nearly a third of hospitals have seen long waits increase, major disruption to cancer services and a fall in GP referrals and screening services.

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 approaching 128,000.

According to the latest ONS figures, the UK has now seen more than 152,000 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 just over 116,000 by 21 May.

In total, there were 11,214 deaths registered in the week to 21 May, which was 3% below the five-year average.

Of the total deaths, 115 were related to coronavirus, 49 fewer than the previous week and the fourth lowest total since the first lockdown in March last year.

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

However, it is harder to estimate the R number when cases are at a low level and therefore the government is not currently producing a figure for the UK as a whole.

The latest estimate for England is 1.0 to 1.2, while for Northern Ireland it is 0.8 to 1.0, for Scotland it is 1.1 to 1.3 and for Wales it is 0.8 to 1.0.