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

There have been nearly 6.3 million confirmed cases of coronavirus in the UK and nearly 131,000 people have died, government figures show.

However, these figures include only people who have died within 28 days of testing positive for coronavirus.

Almost 90% of adults in the UK have now had their first dose of a coronavirus vaccine and nearly 77% have had their second.

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After falling over recent weeks, the average number of daily confirmed cases is now showing signs of a small rise.

A further 28,438 confirmed cases in the UK were announced on Monday.

The recent rise in cases has been 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.

Public Health England estimates that, up to 6 August, the UK vaccination programme had prevented nearly 85,000 deaths and more than 23 million infections.

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, or almost 90% of all UK adults, have now received a first dose of a vaccine and nearly 41 million people, about 77% of all adults, have had a second.

In total, nearly 40 million people in England have had one vaccine dose.

In Scotland, over four million people have had their first shot, while the figure is more than 2.3 million in Wales and about 1.3 million in Northern Ireland.

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

The vaccine is also being offered to 16 and 17-year-olds in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. In Scotland, 16 and 17-year-olds can register their interest online.

There were 26 deaths within 28 days of a positive test reported on Monday.

Of those deaths, 20 were in England, three were in Northern Ireland and three were in Wales. 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 just over 115,000.

The most recent government figures show at least 5,894 people with coronavirus in hospital in the UK. A week earlier that figure was 5,816.

Although numbers climbed in recent weeks, they are far below the peak of nearly 40,000 people back in January.

Patient numbers have also levelled 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.

Recent figures show that a record number of people - more than 5.45 million - are waiting for NHS hospital treatment in England.

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 131,000.

According to the latest ONS figures, the UK has now seen more than 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 more than 118,000 to 30 July.

In total, there were 11,573 deaths registered in the week to 30 July, which was 12% above the five-year average.

Of the total deaths, 468 were related to coronavirus, 76 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 1.0, while for Scotland it is 0.7 to 0.9, for Wales it is 0.8 to 1.1 and for Northern Ireland it is 1.0 to 1.2.