The Suffolk neighbourhoods with the highest Covid-19 infection rates including Eye, Lavenham and Bury St Edmunds

Covid-19 infections in England and Wales have risen for the first time in two months, new figures show.

The increase means the total number of infections in the UK has also gone up – though levels are estimated to have fallen in Scotland and Northern Ireland.

Some 927,900 people in private households in the UK are likely to have tested positive for coronavirus in the week ending September 14, up 5% from 881,200 in the previous week, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS).

The increase brings to an end a steady fall in UK-wide infections since early July, when the total hit 3.8 million at the peak of the wave caused by the Omicron BA.4 and BA.5 subvariants of the virus.

The figures come as the number of people in hospital with Covid-19 is showing early signs of a rise.

In England, the percentage of people testing positive for coronavirus in the week to September 14 was 766,500, or around one in 70 – up from 705,800, or one in 75, in the seven days to September 5.

Wales has also seen a rise, where the latest estimate for infections is 39,700, or one in 75 people, up from 28,200, or one in 110.

Infections are estimated to have risen in north-east England, London, the West Midlands and Yorkshire and The Humber, while falling in south-east England.

The trend in all other regions is described by the ONS as uncertain.

Among age groups in England, the percentage of people testing positive is estimated to have increased for children from school Year 7 to Year 11, and for 25-34 year olds.

In all other groups, the trend was again described as uncertain.

Infection rates are highest among 50 to 69-year-olds, with 1.6% likely to test positive in the most recent week, or around one in 60 people.

Rates are lowest among young children between the age of two and school Year 6, at 0.9% – the equivalent of one in 110.

The Government's interactive map of cases for the case rate per 100,000 people for the seven–day period ending on September 17 shows there were 402 cases in Suffolk with a rate of 52.8.

West Suffolk had 59 cases with a rate of 33.3, Mid Suffolk had 73 cases with a rate of 69.6, while Babergh saw 43 cases and a rate of 46.4.

East Suffolk had 153 cases with a rate of 61.1 and Ipswich had 74 cases with a rate of 54.4.

SuffolkNews has collated the neighbourhoods with some of the highest case rates below for the seven–day period ending on September 17.

To discover the rate in your neighbourhood, click here for the map.

Neighbourhood with total cases and case rate per 100,000 people in brackets:

Eye, Palgrave & Occold - 13 (160.0)

Westerfield, Grundisburgh & Bredfield - 10 (145.0)

Lavenham, Bildeston & Brettenham - 9 (141.2)

Debenham, Stonham & Coddenham - 10 (116.4)

Eastgate & Southgate in Bury St Edmunds - 10 (114.7)

Framlingham & Hacheston - 11 (113.2)

Castle Hill in Ipswich - 7 (101.2)