Coronavirus (COVID‑19)

Stay alert

We can all help control the virus if we all stay alert. This means you must:

• stay at home as much as possible
• work from home if you can
• limit contact with other people
• keep your distance from people not in your household (2 metres apart where possible)
• wash your hands regularly

Do not leave home if you or anyone in your household has symptoms.

Read more about what you can and cannot do

Do not leave home if you or someone you live with has any of the following:

• a high temperature
• a new, continuous cough
• a loss of, or change to, your sense of smell or taste

Check the NHS website if you have symptoms

Find out what support you can get

For example, if you’re out of work, need to get food, or want to take care of your mental health.

Find support

Guidance and support

Protect yourself and others from coronavirus

• Stay at home if you think you have coronavirus (self-isolating)
• Stay alert: what you can and cannot do
• How to protect clinically extremely vulnerable people (shielding)
• Guidance for unpaid carers

Testing for coronavirus

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

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

Local lockdown

• Leicester coronavirus lockdown: areas and changes
• Local lockdowns: guidance for social distancing
• Local lockdowns: guidance for education and childcare settings
• Closing certain businesses and venues in Leicester
• Guidance from Leicester City Council

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.

Working safely

• Reopen your business safely during coronavirus (COVID-19)
• Find out how to make your workplace COVID-secure
• Check if you should go back into work

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.

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.

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

Until 4 July 2020

• Driving lessons, theory tests and driving tests suspended in England
• MOTs for HGVs, buses and trailers suspended
• Vehicle approval tests suspended

Until 1 August 2020

• Car, motorcycle and van MOTs extended by 6 months

Healthcare workers, carers and care settings

• NHS guidance for people working in healthcare
• Using PPE (personal protective equipment)
• Managing possible or confirmed cases
• Handling and processing specimens for lab diagnosis
• Adult social care
• How to protect extremely vulnerable people (shielding)
• Unpaid carers
• Parking passes for healthcare workers and volunteers

Testing

• Get coronavirus tests for a care home
• Essential workers: get a test to check if you have coronavirus
• Guidance on testing for essential workers and care homes

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 landlords, tenants and local authorities
• Moving homes during the coronavirus outbreak
• Planning inspections

Volunteering and offering help

• How to volunteer
• 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

Support if 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

See specific guidance for Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland

Announcements

• Leicestershire coronavirus lockdown: areas and changes

  Published 29 June 2020

• Lockdown restrictions to be eased from 4 July

  Published 23 June 2020

• Plans to ease guidance for over 2 million shielding

  Published 22 June 2020

See all announcements

Statistics

• UK data and analysis on coronavirus
• Data on testing in the UK
• Statistics on coronavirus funding for business

All coronavirus information on GOV.UK

• Guidance
• News

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