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

There have been more than five 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.

Nearly 46 million people in the UK have now had their first dose of a coronavirus vaccine.

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Steep rise in new daily cases

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

A further 32,367 confirmed cases in the UK were announced on Saturday.

The rise in cases is being driven by the Delta variant, which spreads faster than the previously most common Kent variant (now named Alpha).

However, England is set to end all legal restrictions on everyday life from 19 July, with Prime Minister Boris Johnson outlining a five-point plan for "living with Covid".

The plan includes a reduction in the interval between vaccine doses for the under 40s, meaning everyone over 18 should be double-jabbed by mid-September. There will also be an end to the "one-metre-plus" social distancing rule, and no limits on numbers meeting indoors or outdoors.

Legal requirements to wear face coverings will also end, Mr Johnson has said, but guidance will continue to suggest places "where you might choose to do so".

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

Chief Scientific Officer Sir Patrick Vallance has said that while the high level of vaccine coverage makes it more difficult for the virus to spread, hospitalisations and deaths will continue to increase in the coming weeks.

It is thought the infection rate in the first peak of the virus in spring last year 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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Nearly 46 million people - about 87% of all UK adults - have now received a first dose of a vaccine and more than 34 million people, or about 65% of all adults, have had a second.

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

In Scotland, about 3.9 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 rose again in recent weeks as vaccines were rolled out to younger age groups. Those numbers have since fallen again.

Everyone over the age of 18 across the UK can now book a vaccine.

There were 34 deaths within 28 days of a positive test reported on Saturday.

Of those deaths, 26 were in England, seven were in Scotland and one was in Northern Ireland. There were no deaths 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 113,000.

The most recent government figures show 2,731 people with coronavirus in hospital in the UK.

Although numbers are now rising, they are still 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 all areas now, 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 almost 153,000 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 115,227 by 25 June.

In total, there were 10,052 deaths registered in the week to 25 June, which was 6% below the five-year average.

Of the total deaths, 118 were related to coronavirus, two 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 is 1.2 to 1.5 in both England and Scotland, while for Wales it is 1.1 to 1.4 and for Northern Ireland it is 1.2 to 1.6.