Following a significant increase in testing capacity over recent weeks, the Government is now testing:

• all essential workers including NHS and social care workers with symptoms
• anyone over 65 with symptoms
• anyone whose work cannot be done from home (for example, construction workers, shop workers, emergency plumbers and delivery drivers) with symptoms.

They will also test anyone who has symptoms of coronavirus that lives with those identified above.

They are also testing:

• Social care workers and residents in care homes (with or without symptoms) both to investigate outbreaks and, following successful pilots, as part of a rolling programme to test all care homes.
• NHS workers and patients without symptoms, in line with NHS England guidance.

For full guidance, including information on the different routes to receiving a test, please visit https://www.gov.uk/guidance/coronavirus-covid-19-getting-tested.