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

There have been more than 9.3 million confirmed cases of coronavirus in the UK and nearly 142,000 people have died, government figures show.

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

So far, 87% of people aged 12 and over in the UK have had their first vaccine dose, while more than 79% have had their second and more than 17.5% have had a booster dose.

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There has been a small fall in the average number of daily confirmed cases in recent days.

A further 30,305 confirmed cases were announced on Sunday.

The recent spikes have been driven by the Delta variant, which spreads faster than the previously most common Kent variant (now named Alpha).

NHS leaders have called for the reintroduction of some Covid restrictions, such as mandatory face coverings in crowded and enclosed spaces, to avoid a winter crisis.

However, the government has said there are currently no plans to activate the so-called Plan B for winter.

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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More than 50 million people, or 87% of those aged 12 and over in the UK, have now received a first dose of a vaccine.

The number of people who have received a second vaccine dose is now almost 46 million, or more than 79% of people aged 12 and over.

A booster campaign is also now under way, with 30 million people in nine priority groups qualifying for a third dose.

While the uptake of first and second doses has dropped off there has been a steep rise in people having booster doses. More than eight million of these doses have been administered in England so far.

In Scotland, more than 957,000 people have had their booster shot, while that figure is nearly 517,000 in Wales and it is more than 138,000 in Northern Ireland.

However, some doctors and others involved in the booster programme have told the BBC they are concerned about the speed of the rollout.

There were 62 deaths within 28 days of a positive test reported on Sunday.

Of those deaths, 47 were in England, nine were in Wales, four were in Northern Ireland and two were in Scotland.

England has seen the majority of UK deaths since the pandemic began, with more than 123,000 so far.

Prof Jonathan Van-Tam, England's deputy chief medical officer, has warned the "very high" coronavirus rates in the UK at present meant hard months were to come.

It was concerning that Covid levels were "running this hot, this early in the autumn season", he told the BBC, and urged people to get their Covid jabs, boosters and flu vaccines.

The speed of such vaccinations, face coverings and the caution people took in interacting with others, would determine how the next few months panned out, he said.

The most recent government figures show 9,160 people with coronavirus in hospital in the UK, up from 9,061 a week earlier.

Although numbers of hospital patients with coronavirus are higher than they were over the summer, they are far below the peak of nearly 40,000 people back in January.

Looking at Covid patients in hospital by region, the numbers are higher than in the summer and are now once again rising in most regions.

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 - the ones reported each day - count people who died within 28 days of testing positive for coronavirus. This figure is now more than 140,000.

According to the latest ONS figures, the UK has now seen more than 160,000 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 about 136,000 as of 22 October.

In total, there were 12,935 deaths registered in the week to 22 October, which was 1,722 more than the five-year average.

Of the total deaths, 974 were related to coronavirus, 82 more than the previous week.

There have been more deaths involving Covid than "excess" deaths since the start of the pandemic, meaning non-Covid deaths must be below usual levels.

This could be down to the milder flu season last winter - due to 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, Scotland and Wales is 0.9 to 1.1 and for Northern Ireland it is 0.9 to 1.0.