- 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
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.
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
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.
Guidance and support
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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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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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Coronavirus (COVID-19) information for parents, schools, colleges and universities: closures, exams, learning, health and wellbeing.
- 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
- Safer travel guidance for passengers
- Safer transport guidance for operators
- Renewals of lorry and bus driving licences for people over 45
Driving and theory tests
Until 1 August 2020
Testing
- Essential workers: book your test
- Care home workers: book your test
- How to take a swab test and where to send samples
Guidance for managers
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
See specific guidance for Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland
Announcements
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Face coverings to be mandatory in shops and supermarkets from 24 July
Published 14 July 2020
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Government announces gyms and pools to reopen safely
Published 9 July 2020
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Plans to ease guidance for over 2 million shielding
Published 22 June 2020
Press conferences and speeches
Broadcast 9 July 2020