Good hygiene
The best way to protect yourself and your family from coronavirus (COVID-19) is by practicing good respiratory and hand hygiene. The latest advice from Public Health England is to:
Wash your hands more often than usual, for 20 seconds each time with soap and water or hand sanitiser, especially when you:
- Get home or into work
- Blow your nose, sneeze or cough
- Eat or handle food
Symptoms
You are advised to stay at home for 14 days if you live with others and you or anyone in your household have either:
- a high temperature
- a new continuous cough
- loss/change in your normal sense of smell or taste
This will help to protect others in your community while you are infectious.
Do not go to a GP surgery, pharmacy or hospital.
For further advice about staying at home for those households with possible Coronavirus infection visit the GOV.UK stay at home page.
Additional information about Coronavirus can be found on the GOV.UK website or NHS website.
Useful websites
- Government advice about social distancing and staying safe
- Government's FAQs on what you can and can't do
- Updated guidance on easing shielding for clinically vulnerable people from 6 July
- Government guidance on shielding and protecting extremely vulnerable people
- Get Coronavirus support as an extremely vulnerable person
- Guidance for households with possible coronavirus infection
- Guidance for parents and carers on supporting children and young people's mental health and wellbeing during coronavirus
- Yorkshire and Humber Public Health Network
- Government guidance about safer travel for passengers