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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

Latest Real-Time News from the Government

New campaign urges public to get tested twice a week

From Friday 9 April, everyone in England will be eligible for free rapid COVID-19 tests, twice a week.

£18 million announced for cycle training for children and their families

As COVID-19 restrictions lift, Transport Secretary invests in the Bikeability cycling proficiency training scheme so that more people can

Global Travel Taskforce sets out framework to safely reopen international travel

Recommendations include the launch of a new traffic light system and 'green watchlist', and the introduction of travel certification.

Ocean Quest report and safety flyer published

Flooding and sinking of the trawler Ocean Quest 70 miles north-east of Fraserburgh, Scotland.

COVID-19 vaccines have prevented 10,400 deaths in older adults

PHE analysis suggests the UK COVID-19 vaccination programme has so far prevented thousands of deaths in those aged 60 and above.

Myanmar Embassy: Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office statement

A spokesperson statement from the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office on Myanmar.

Letter from the Health and Social Care Secretary on use of the Moderna vaccine

Matt Hancock wrote to the JCVI in response to their advice on use of Moderna in the COVID-19 vaccination programme and recommended dosing

Jail sentence for businessman who filled former quarry with dangerous waste

A rogue trader has been jailed for allowing thousands of tonnes of waste - including hazardous material - to be illegally deposited at a

A letter from the Chancellor in response to Anneliese Dodds

Letter from the Chancellor in response to questions from Anneliese Dodds regarding Greensill Capital.

Weekly national flu and COVID-19 surveillance reports published

National influenza and COVID-19 report, monitoring coronavirus (COVID-19) activity, seasonal flu and other seasonal respiratory illnesses

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