Coronavirus advice from Government
As the advice regarding coronavirus changes in response to emerging evidence, the Government has created a one-stop-shop for all advice which you can find here.
If you need medical help, please use the 111 online coronavirus service.
Protect yourself and others from coronavirus
- Self-isolating: stay at home if you think you have coronavirus
- Stay alert: what you can and cannot do
- Staying safe outside your home
- Face coverings: when to wear one and how to make your own
- Shielding: protecting yourself if you're clinically extremely vulnerable
- Unpaid carers: supporting friends and family
Testing for coronavirus
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Get tested
- Essential workers: get a test to check if you have coronavirus
- Get a test to check if you have coronavirus
- Get coronavirus tests for a care home
- Book a test if you have a verification code
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Guidance on testing
- NHS test and trace: how it works
- NHS test and trace: workplace guidance
- Guidance on testing for essential workers and care homes
Work and financial support
- Getting financial help and staying safe at work
- Redundancy: your rights
- Get financial support if you’re off sick
- Check if you should go back to work
Working safely
- Reopen your business safely during coronavirus (COVID-19)
- Make your workplace COVID-secure
- Check if you should go back into work
- Safe working in education, childcare and children’s social care
Businesses and self-employed people
- Getting financial help and keeping your business safe
- Reopen your business safely
- Find out about financial support
- Apply for a grant if you’re self-employed
School openings, education and childcare
- Guidance for teachers, school leaders, carers, parents and students
- Keep children and staff safe when schools reopen
- Check how holiday clubs, childminders and after-school clubs can operate
- Running an early years setting during coronavirus
International travel and immigration
- Guidance for British citizens travelling abroad
- Travel to the UK: countries with a quarantine exemption
- Countries exempt from advice against non-essential international travel
- What you need to do if you’re travelling to the UK
- Foreign travel advice for each country
- Safer air travel guidance for passengers
- Get support if you’re waiting to return to the UK
- Guidance for visa applicants in the UK and abroad
Driving and transport in the UK
- Safer travel guidance for passengers
- Safer transport guidance for operators
- Renewals of lorry and bus driving licences for people over 45
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Driving and theory tests
- Find out when theory tests are restarting
- Find out when driving tests are restarting
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Until 1 August 2020
- Car, motorcycle and van MOTs extended by 6 months
Healthcare workers, carers and care settings
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Testing
- Essential workers: book your test
- Care home workers: book your test
- How to take a swab test and where to send samples
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Guidance for managers
- Adult social care
- NHS guidance for managers working in healthcare
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Managing patients with coronavirus (COVID-19)
- How to protect extremely vulnerable people (shielding)
- Using PPE (personal protective equipment)
- COVID-19: guidance for health professionals
- Managing coronavirus (COVID-19) deaths
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Support for healthcare workers and volunteers
- Parking passes
Health and wellbeing
- Contact a GP and order repeat prescriptions online
- Guidance on pregnancy and coronavirus
- Mental health and wellbeing
- How to get food and other essential items
- Support for victims of domestic violence
Housing and accommodation
- Renting: guidance for tenants, landlords and local authorities
- Moving homes: guidance for tenants, businesses and social landlords
- Stamp Duty Land Tax: rates reduced
Volunteering and offering help
- How to volunteer
- Join a vaccine research study
- Join a genetic study if you tested positive for coronavirus
- Donate blood plasma if you have tested positive for coronavirus
- How to help others safely
- Guidance for unpaid carers
- Help to increase coronavirus testing capacity
- Help tackle false information spreading online