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

There have been 4.9 million confirmed cases of coronavirus in the UK and more than 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 45 million people in the UK have now had their first dose of a coronavirus vaccine.

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Cases now on the rise again

After declining substantially at the start of the year, the average number of daily confirmed cases has been rising in recent weeks.

A further 24,248 confirmed cases in the UK were announced on Sunday.

The rise in cases is being driven by the more transmissible Delta variant and has led to further lifting of coronavirus restrictions being delayed.

Lockdown measures were due to be eased in England and Scotland from 21 June, but that move was put on hold to allow more time for people to be vaccinated.

However, people in England will "very likely" be able to return to "pretty much life before Covid" on the revised date of 19 July, Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said.

Recent data suggests that the vaccination programme has reduced hospital admissions and deaths, with an estimated fewer than one in 1,000 infections now leading to a death - compared with one in 60 during last winter.

BBC health correspondent Nick Triggle says this has dramatically altered what can be considered a proportionate response to the virus - and is why a further loosening of restrictions remains on the cards, despite rising cases.

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.

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

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The Delta variant, first identified in India, is now the main type of coronavirus in the UK.

Delta spreads faster than the Kent variant (now named Alpha), which had previously been most common.

However, vaccines still appear to be working well, even with Delta in circulation.

A single dose reduces a person's chance of catching coronavirus and needing hospital treatment by about 75%, according to the latest PHE data, while two doses reduces the risk of hospitalisation by more than 90%.

More than 45 million people - about 85% of all UK adults - have now received a first dose of a vaccine and more than 33 million people, or more than 60% of all adults, have had a second.

In total, nearly 38 million people in England have had one vaccine dose.

In Scotland, more than 3.8 million people have had their first shot, while the figure is approaching 2.3 million in Wales and 1.2 million in Northern Ireland.

While more people received second doses from April to June, the number of first doses has risen again in recent weeks as vaccines are rolled out to younger age groups.

There were 15 deaths within 28 days of a positive test reported on Sunday.

All 15 deaths were in England. There were no deaths reported in Scotland, Wales 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 nearly 113,000.

The most recent government figures show 1,905 people with coronavirus in hospital in the UK.

Although numbers are now rising, they are 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 rising 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 more than 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 115,861 by 18 June.

In total, there were 10,818 deaths registered in the week to 18 June, which was 115 deaths more than the five-year average.

Of the total deaths, 116 were related to coronavirus, 23 more than in 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 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 1.1 to 1.3, while for Scotland it is 1.2 to 1.5, for Wales it is 1.1 to 1.4 and for Northern Ireland it is 1.2 to 1.6.