Test, trace, protect: coronavirus

Guidance and services

• Daily contact tracing check: symptoms, guidance and support
  Follow this guidance if you have been contacted by the NHS Wales Test, Trace, Protect Service.
• Contact tracing: if you have tested positive
  Explains how the contact tracing system works if you have tested positive for coronavirus.
• Contact tracing: if you are a confirmed contact
  Explains how the contact tracing system works if you are a confirmed contact of someone who has tested positive for coronavirus.
• Contact tracing: stay alert to scams
  Explains how to identify genuine communications from our contact tracing team.
• Contact tracing: support for workers and the self-employed
  Support for people who are self-isolating.
• Contact tracing: your questions
  Explains how contact tracing is being used to control the spread of coronavirus.
• Apply for a coronavirus test
  Get tested to find out if you have coronavirus.
• Using the coronavirus home testing kit
  How to use the coronavirus home testing kit if you think you have coronavirus.
• What happens when you get a test for coronavirus (COVID-19) (easy read)
  Easy read explanation of when to get tested and what the NHS will ask if you test positive.
• Test, trace, protect: your questions
  Who and how people will be tested for coronavirus.
• Test, trace, protect: process summary
  What you need to do to help contact tracing control the spread of coronavirus.
• Test, trace, protect: guidance for employers
  Employers' responsibilities to help with coronavirus testing and contact tracing.
• Test, trace, protect: toolkit for critical worker employers
  A toolkit and assets for critical worker employers to communicate the Test, Trace, Protect strategy.
• How to test care home staff for COVID-19
  Care homes follow this guidance to test staff for COVID-19.
• Testing process for care homes: COVID-19
  How care home residents and staff are tested for coronavirus.
• Care home testing guidance
  Covid-19 PCR testing in care homes. Managing residents and staff who test positive for Covid-19 and reporting arrangements.
• Regional coronavirus testing facilities
  Wales’ testing capacity is supported by an extensive network of facilities across the country.
• Changes to testing criteria: Coronavirus (COVID-19) CEM/CMO/2020/8
  Providing advice on changes to testing criteria for coronavirus, including testing of health care workers.
• Coronavirus critical (key) workers: test eligibility
  These are defined as critical workers for coronavirus testing.
• Antibody testing: coronavirus (COVID-19)
  Explains antibody testing for COVID-19 including that it cannot tell people whether they are immune.
• Guidance on testing and contact tracing in education settings
  Information on the antigen (swab) and antibody (blood) tests and contact tracing.

Policy and background Includes strategy, reports, projects and assessments.

• Test Trace Protect
  Policy and strategy
  Our strategy for testing the general public and tracing the spread of coronavirus in Wales.
• Welsh national COVID-19 test approach: May 2020
  Policy and strategy
  Public Health Wales
  Our approach to COVID-19 testing in Wales.
• Testing for coronavirus: weekly updates
  Collection
  Includes the number and results of coronavirus tests, who was tested and where they were tested.
• Key (critical) workers testing policy: coronavirus (COVID-19)
  Policy and strategy
  Policy sets out a needs based approach testing criteria for NHS and non-NHS (key workers).
• Review of testing for COVID-19
  Policy and strategy
  Review of our plan and improvements on testing key (critical) workers.