Coronavirus in Scotland
Protect yourself and others:
- stay at home
- only go outside for essential food, health and work reasons
- stay 2 metres (6 feet) away from other people
- wash your hands regularly and as soon as you get home
Scotland is at Phase 1 of the route map for moving out of lockdown.
Information and support
Coronavirus (COVID-19) cases in Scotland
Protecting yourself and others
- staying at home and away from others (physical distancing)
- Test and Protect: guidance for self-isolating | summary | guidance for employers
- support if you are shielding (in the highest risk group)
- help if you are vulnerable or need additional support
- advice if you have a specific medical condition
- guidance on using face coverings in public
- guidance for customers
- staying safe at home leaflet
- health advice, including a symptom checker and guidance for households with possible coronavirus infection, can be found on NHS Inform
- shielding guidance for local authorities
Health and wellbeing
- guide to the help and support available including food and other essentials
- vitamin D: advice for all age groups
- for domestic abuse support go to the Safer Scotland website
- health and social care workers can get advice to support their emotional wellbeing at the National Wellbeing Hub
- information for older people can be found at Age Scotland
- dementia advice and support can be found at Alzheimer Scotland
- for autism advice go to Scottish Autism
- if you have been affected by sexual violence you can get support at Rape Crisis Scotland
- if you are feeling anxious or depressed you can get support from NHS Inform, Breathing Space, the Scottish Association for Mental Health and Samaritans Scotland
Getting tested for coronavirus
Healthworkers, carers and social work
Care, carers and social work
- general advice for unpaid carers
- unpaid carers: guide to using PPE
- personal assistants: guide to using PPE
- social care providers and unpaid carers: how to access PPE
- guidance on changes to social care assessments
- guidance for social workers on safe and ethical practice
- adult support and protection guidance
- job retention (furlough) of social care staff required to shield
- adults with incapacity guidance
- guidance on self-directed support
Healthcare students
Clinical guidance
Further information for health and social care professionals
- guide for health professionals returning to NHS Scotland
- further information and guidance for health practitioners can be found at NHS Inform and Health Protection Scotland
Housing and accommodation
Schools, education, children and young people
- guidance on re-opening schools
- childminder services re-opening guidance
- fully outdoor childcare providers re-opening guidance
- physical distancing in education and childcare settings
- education and childcare provision for keyworkers and vulnerable children
- guidance to support learning
- guidance for residential childcare settings
- school placing requests and appeals guidance
- supplementary national child protection guidance
- childcare closures and emergency provision
- advice for international students
- infant feeding service guidance for NHS staff
- advice for parents is on the ParentClub website
- advice for young people is on YoungScot
Businesses and self-employed people
- physical distancing guidance for businesses
- support for businesses
- Test and Protect: guidance for self-isolating | summary | guidance for employers
- coronavirus business support and advice is at the Find Business Support website.
Sector specific guidance and support
Work and financial support
- guidance on returning to work
- advice about benefits and employment rights is on Citizens Advice Scotland
- advice about employment and redundancy support is on the My World of Work website
- for money and consumer advice go to coronavirusadvice.scot
- for employment rights advice see the Acas website
- for energy saving advice go to Home Energy Scotland
Offer help
- information on how to help your community is on the Ready Scotland website
- businesses, third sector and voluntary organisations can offer to help with the response to coronavirus
- if your offer is for NHS Scotland, use the NHS Scotland Supply Offers Portal
- if you’re a member of the public who wants to share an idea, email cpe@gov.scot
Funerals, burial and cremation
Travel
- advice on how to travel safely is on the Transport Scotland website
- guidance for British people travelling abroad is at gov.uk
- travel advice and country specific information can be found at the Fit for Travel website
- visa and passport advice is at gov.uk
Scottish Government approach and strategy
Our approach is guided by the Chief Medical Officer, and we continue to monitor the situation closely and to work with the WHO and international community.
We are working with the Welsh Government, Northern Ireland Executive, and the UK Government to respond to the ongoing outbreak.
- Test, Trace, Isolate, Support sets out our plans to help disrupt community transmission of coronavirus
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): framework for decision making - Scotland's routemap through and out of the crisis gives an indication of the order in which we will carefully and gradually seek to change current restrictions
- First Minister's updates and statements