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 confirmed cases is now rising.

A further 7,393 confirmed cases in the UK were announced by the government on Thursday.

Several areas are experiencing a rise in infections linked to the Delta variant, first detected in India, and some scientific advisors have urged caution over lifting restrictions in England on 21 June.

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 orange and red 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 months. 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.

Early data suggests it spreads faster than the Kent variant (now named the Alpha variant), which had been the most common until recently.

There is also evidence that the first dose of a vaccine doesn't work as well against the Delta variant as it does against the older one - but that worry fades once you have had two jabs.

The areas with the highest proportion of the Delta variant include Bolton, Blackburn with Darwen and Bedford, as the map below shows.

Nearly 41 million people - over three quarters of all UK adults - have now received a first dose of a vaccine and almost 29 million people, or half of all adults, have had a second.

In total, almost 34 million people in England have had one vaccine dose.

In Scotland, 3.4 million people have had their first dose, while the figure is about 2.2 million in Wales and more than one million in Northern Ireland.

While more second doses are now being given than first, the number of first doses is higher at the moment than it was in April.

First vaccines are now being offered to people aged 25 and above in England, people over 30 in Scotland and over-18s in Northern Ireland and Wales.

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

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

Of those, five deaths were in England, one was in Scotland and the other in Wales. No deaths were reported 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 1,048 people with coronavirus in hospital in the UK - up from 927 a week ago.

Although that number is now rising, it is far below the peak of nearly 40,000 people back in January.

London, the South East and the Midlands saw the highest numbers in the winter peak.

Patient numbers have fallen in all UK nations and regions in recent months, although they are beginning to rise again in some areas, as the chart below shows.

Patient groups and hospital staff have warned that lives are being put at risk by the huge backlog of treatment left by the pandemic.

In-depth analysis by BBC News 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 115,770 by 28 May.

In total, there were 10,977 deaths registered in the week to 28 May, which was 3% below the five-year average.

Of the total deaths, 106 were related to coronavirus, nine 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.