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Coronavirus (COVID-19): shielding advice and support
Carers and healthcare workers
Carers and healthcare workers
Your carers and visitors who support you with your everyday needs can continue to visit. This is unless they have any of the symptoms of coronavirus themselves.
All visitors should wash their hands for at least 20 seconds when they arrive. They should do often during their visit. It is important to do so before and after preparing food.
It is also a good idea to speak to your carers about what happens if one of them becomes unwell. Contact your local authority if your carer or healthcare workers cannot come due to illness.
First published:23 Feb 2021Last updated:22 Apr 2021 - show all updates
Added new section on workplace safety advice.
Levels page updated to reflect latest position for school, college or formal childcare.
Updated to reflect move out of lockdown.
Additional levels advice added.
Shielding extra advice table added as a PDF attachment.
Research about shielding page added.
Update to highest risk classification page adding liver cirrhosis (Child-Pugh class B and C) to relevant section.
Update to prescriptions page.
Highest risk group page updated to reflect latest position.
Updated to add further information about getting to your vaccination appointment to the overview page.
Updated the content to include information about vaccines and staying safe during lockdown.
Pages updated to reflect latest position.
Shielding letters page added
Update to SMS shielding service page to add that people will never be asked for personal or banking details by text.
Updated to reflect latest changes in guidance. Some sections redirected to current advice on http://www.mygov.scot/shielding
Updated to reflect latest changes in guidance.
Updated to reflect latest changes in guidance.
Daily activities attachment updated.
Staying safe with daily activities updated
Updated to reflect additional support that is available.
Staying safe guide updated to reflect changes on meeting others.
Updates made to overview, current advice, highest risk group, children and young people, seeing friends and family, daily activities and health and wellbeing pages.
Updated to to include current advice and the SMS Shielding Service contact information
Add information note to overview page to reference latest restrictions on Aberdeen City.
Updated to reflect that shielding has paused.
Updated to include the Staying Safe with Daily Activities Guide
