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

There have been more than six million confirmed cases of coronavirus in the UK and over 130,000 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 47 million people in the UK have now had their first dose of a coronavirus vaccine.

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The average number of daily confirmed cases rose sharply in June and early July - part of a third wave of cases in the UK. It now appears to be levelling off after a fall.

A further 27,429 confirmed cases in the UK were announced on Sunday.

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

Prime Minister Boris Johnson has lifted all legal restrictions in England but he has urged the public to remain cautious, saying the pandemic is not over.

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 Medical Officer Chris Whitty has said that while current hospitalisation rates are "not trivial", they are "way below" those seen in previous waves.

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

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Rates for cases and deaths for nations, regions and local authorities have been updated to use the latest population estimates for mid-2020, published by the Office for National Statistics.

More than 47 million people - about 89% of all UK adults - have now received a first dose of a vaccine and more than 39 million people, or around 75% of all adults, have had a second.

In total, more than 39 million people in England have had one vaccine dose.

In Scotland, over four million people have had their first shot, while the figure is about 2.3 million in Wales and 1.2 million in Northern Ireland.

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

The vaccine will also be offered to 16 and 17-year-olds, with some walk-in services in Northern Ireland offering the jabs to teenagers in the new age group on Friday. Health services in Scotland, England and Wales will soon follow suit.

There were 39 deaths within 28 days of a positive test reported on Sunday.

Of those deaths, 35 were in England, three were in Wales and one was in Northern Ireland. No deaths were reported in Scotland.

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 114,000.

The most recent government figures show at least 5,631 people with coronavirus in hospital in the UK. A week ago that figure was 5,912.

Although numbers have been high in recent weeks, they have still been far below the peak of nearly 40,000 people back in January.

Patient numbers have also started to level off across the country, albeit at different rates, 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 130,000.

According to the latest ONS figures, the UK has now seen almost 154,000 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 almost 117,000 to 23 July.

In total, there were 11,160 deaths registered in the week to 23 July, which was 806 deaths more than the five-year average.

Of the total deaths, 392 were related to coronavirus, 124 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.

The latest R number estimate for England is 0.8 to 1.1, while for Scotland it is 0.7 to 0.9, for Wales it is 1.2 to 1.4 and for Northern Ireland it is 0.85 to 1.05.