Guidance and support
Protect yourself and others from coronavirus
- Stay at home if you think you have coronavirus (self-isolating)
- Stay alert and safe: social distancing guidance for everyone
- Stay alert: what you can and cannot do
- Meeting people from outside your household
- How to stay safe outside your home
- Our plan to rebuild: the UK Government's COVID-19 recovery strategy
- How to protect clinically extremely vulnerable people (shielding)
- Guidance for unpaid carers
- Safer travel
Testing for coronavirus
Get tested
- Get a test to check if you have coronavirus
- Essential workers: 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
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
Work and financial support
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
School openings, education and childcare
Housing and accommodation
- Renting: guidance for landlords, tenants and local authorities
- Moving homes during the coronavirus outbreak
- Planning inspections
Driving and transport in the UK
- Safer travel guidance for passengers
- Safer transport guidance for operators
- Car, motorcycle and van MOTs extended by 6 months
- Driving tests and MOTs for heavy vehicles suspended
- Relaxation of drivers’ hours rules
- Vehicle approval tests suspended
- Avoid travel to second homes, campsites and caravan parks
International travel and immigration
- Guidance for British citizens travelling abroad
- 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
- Essential international travel guidance
- Guidance for visa applicants in the UK and abroad
Volunteering and offering help
- How to volunteer
- Donate blood plasma if you have tested positive for coronavirus
- Offer the help of your business
- How to help others safely
- Guidance for unpaid carers
- Help to increase coronavirus testing capacity
- Help tackle false information spreading online
Healthcare workers, carers and care settings
- NHS guidance for people working in healthcare
- Guidance on using appropriate personal protective equipment (PPE)
- Guidance on adult social care
- How to protect extremely vulnerable people (shielding)
- Guidance for unpaid carers
- Parking passes for healthcare workers and volunteers
Testing
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
- 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
- UK COVID-19 alert is lowered to risk level 3
Published 19 June 2020
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
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