While most areas of the UK are recording steadily dropping coronavirus infection rates, five areas are continuing to see rises.
All areas of the UK are now reporting infection rates at pre-New Year levels, the latest official data shows. Just a small handful of regions in England, Wales and Scotland are still recording rates going up, bucking the national trend.
In all five areas the week-on-week rise was small. And in other areas, there were encouraging signs of significant progress, according to the latest figures.
Derbyshire Dales and East Lindsey in the East Midlands, along with Argyll & Bute, East Renfrewshire and Midlothian in Scotland, were the only local authority areas in the UK to show an increase in case rates for the seven