Who can get COVID testing for free?
- People going into hospital for surgery or a procedure may need to get tested.Your hospital will tell you how to get a test. Contact your hospital department if you have any questions.
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People with a health condition which means you're eligible for COVID-19 treatments. You should be sent a COVID-19 test to use if you have symptoms. You can order free NHS tests yourself, if you have not received any tests yet or have used the tests you've been sent.
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People who work in care homes, domiciliary care, extra care and supported living services, and adult day care centres, can also get free NHS tests. Find out more about tests for people working in adult social care.
Living with COVID-19 current guidance
- If you have symptoms of a cold, a high temperature or feel unwell, you should stay at home and avoid contact with other people, until you feel well enough to do normal activities and no longer have a high temperature.
- Children and young people who are unwell and have a high temperature should stay at home and avoid contact with other people, where they can. They can go back to school, college or childcare when they no longer have a high temperature, and they are well enough to attend
- If you have a positive COVID-19 test result stay at home and avoid contact with other people for five days, which is when you are most infectious.
Oversees travel
People traveling to the UK
International travelers coming into the country, regardless of their vaccination status, no longer need to take COVID-19 pre-departure or arrival tests or complete passenger locator forms.
Traveling abroad from the UK
Other countries have rules about what you must do to travel there from England.