Read the latest advice and information about the Coronavirus (Covid-19)
It is important to stay informed from official sources. Up to date information can be found on the NHS website.
If you think you have symptoms of coronavirus:
Use the NHS 111 online coronavirus service or phone NHS 111 to find out what to do. Do not go to your GP or hospital.
There are two types of Covid-19 test available in Coventry. This is how to access them:
Local rapid test centres have been set up which you can go to without an appointment to get a test (known as a rapid flow test). You will get the results within in 30 minutes onsite.
Find out where Coventry’s rapid test centres are
If you test positive you will need to get a second test using one of the testing centres that send your sample to a lab to be analysed.
You always need an appointment for one of these tests and you can book an appointment by:
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You must not leave, or be outside of your home except where necessary. You may leave the home to:
Guidance has been updated to support those at most risk from Covid-19 to protect themselves.
The shielding guidance applies to clinically extremely vulnerable individuals only. Others living in a household with someone who is clinically extremely vulnerable are not advised to follow this guidance. They should instead follow the general advice and regulations set out in the national lockdown guidance that came into effect on 5 January 2021.
The clinically extremely vulnerable will get priority access to vaccination against COVID-19 before the general population You will be contacted again by the NHS with more information on when and how you will be invited to get the vaccine.
Coventry City Council, local NHS organisations and voluntary organsations offer support:
Find out about local practical or financial help during the current restrictions
Go to emotional wellbeing support produced by Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust
If you live alone or you’re a single parent who lives alone with your children, you can meet with 1 other household without social distancing. This is called a support bubble. Once you’re in a support bubble, you can think of yourself as being in a single household with the people from that other household.
Childcare bubbles with another household can be made for informal childcare for children aged 13 or under from friends and family you do not live with.
The NHS Covid-19 app helps notify users if they have come into contact with someone who tests positive for Covid-19. The app allows people to report symptoms, order a coronavirus test, check in to venues by scanning a QR code and it helps the NHS trace individuals that have coronavirus.
The app does this while protecting the user’s anonymity. Nobody, including the government, will know who or where a particular user is.
