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Coronavirus Guidance and support

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.

Local COVID Alert Levels

  • Postcode checker: look up an area’s Local COVID Alert Level
  • Areas with local restrictions in place
  • New Local COVID Alert Levels: what you need to know
  • Full list of Local COVID Alert Levels by area

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 alert and safe
  • How to meet others safely (social distancing)
  • How to make a support bubble with another household
  • 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

  • Find out about coronavirus testing

    How to get tested for coronavirus (COVID-19).

Popular content

  • Get a test to check if you have coronavirus
  • Book a test if you have a verification code
  • NHS test and trace: how it works
  • NHS test and trace: workplace guidance

Work and financial support

  • Getting financial help and staying safe at work

    Get coronavirus (COVID-19) support if you’re working less or not working - and find out how to stay safe at work.

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  • Redundancy: your rights
  • Get financial support if you’re off sick
  • How to return to work safely if you cannot work from home

Businesses and self-employed people

  • Getting financial help and keeping your business safe

    Get coronavirus (COVID-19) support for your business or if you’re self-employed, and find out how to keep your business and your employees safe

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  • Make your workplace COVID-secure
  • Financial support for businesses and self-employed people

School openings, education and childcare

  • Guidance for teachers, school leaders, carers, parents and students

    Coronavirus (COVID-19) information for parents, schools, colleges and universities: closures, exams, learning, health and wellbeing.

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  • Wearing face coverings in schools and other educational settings
  • Ordering home test kits for schools and further education providers
  • Safe working in education, childcare and children’s social care
  • Check how holiday clubs, childminders and after-school clubs can operate

International travel and immigration

  • Foreign travel advice for each country
  • Entering or returning to the UK
  • Guidance for travelling abroad
  • Countries you can travel from without self-isolating
  • Countries exempt from advice against non-essential international travel
  • 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 if you're walking, cycling or a passenger
  • Safer transport guidance for operators
  • Renewals of lorry and bus driving licences for people over 45

Healthcare workers, carers and care settings

Testing

  • Book a test to see if you have coronavirus now
  • Care home workers: book your test
  • How to take a swab test and where to send samples

Guidance for healthcare workers and carers

  • Adult social care
  • NHS guidance for managers working in healthcare

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

Support for healthcare workers and volunteers

  • Parking passes

Health and wellbeing

  • Contact a GP and order repeat prescriptions online
  • Guidance on pregnancy and coronavirus (COVID-19)
  • Mental health and wellbeing
  • How to get food and other essential items
  • If you need extra support outside of the home
  • 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

When someone dies

  • What to do when someone dies: step-by-step
  • Attending or arranging a funeral
  • Check if you can get Bereavement Support Payment
  • Check if you can get help with funeral costs

Guidance for professionals

  • Guidance for professionals working with the deceased

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