coronavirus swept across the UK over the last eight months. The animation, posted to Reddit by user _c9s_, shows the number of positive Covid-19 cases confirmed across the UK (and the Isle of Man) from the beginning of February up until October 9.The graphic is colour-coded from white to red to black to show the number of cases per million people.Cases were taken for each lower-tier local authority area per day of the pandemic, adjusted for the population of the area.The date is shown at the bottom of the gif and reveals how quickly the deadly disease surged across Britain, with some regions going from pale red to black in the space of a matter of days.London, the centre of the UK's epidemic earlier in the year, gets its own mini inset map.