Coronavirus Advice

Stay home. Save lives. Protect the NHS.

This section of the website has been designed to provide up-to-date information, guidance and advice with regards to Coronavirus (COVID-19).

On the left you will find a range of information and helpful points of contact for a broad range of both Government programmes and support provided by external organisations. These will be kept up-to-date and expanded where necessary.

If you need medical help, please use the 111 online coronavirus service. Click here for the Government's stay at home advice and here for more general information.

Finally, please see below for the most recent Government information on Coronavirus.

Latest updates:

Statement to parliament: Home Secretary oral statement on health measures at the border

The Home Secretary delivered an oral statement to the House of Commons on health measures being introduced at the border in response to c

Guidance: Coronavirus (COVID-19): advice to local authorities on prioritising waste collections

A guide to help waste collectors prioritise their collection services during the coronavirus pandemic.

Speech: Health and Social Care Secretary's statement on coronavirus (COVID-19): 2 June 2020

Health and Social Care Secretary Matt Hancock gave the 2 June 2020 daily press briefing on the government's response to the coronavirus p

Guidance: Coronavirus (COVID-19) testing: privacy information

Privacy notice on COVID-19 virus testing for critical workers and their household members who are self-isolating because they're showing

Press release: Dairy response fund set to open for applications

Eligible English dairy farmers able to apply for up to £10,000 to overcome impact of coronavirus.

Guidance: Support for the bereaved

Information to help bereaved families, friends or next of kin make important decisions.

News story: Public health border measures to come into force next week

The rules which cover the new measures at the UK border to protect against coronavirus will be published on 3 June 2020.

Transparency data: Coronavirus grant funding: local authority payments to small and medium businesses

Local authorities have received and distributed funding to support small and medium businesses in England during coronavirus.

Guidance: What parents and carers need to know about schools and other education settings during the coronavirus outbreak

Information for parents and carers about the wider opening of nurseries, schools and colleges, transport, attendance, free school meals a

Research and analysis: FCO areas of research interest (ARI) 2020: coronavirus (COVID-19) update

The Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) ARI has been updated to set out our research areas of interest relating to the response to the