Test, trace, protect: coronavirus

Guidance and services

• Getting tested for coronavirus (COVID-19)
  Guidance on who is eligible for testing and how to get a test.
• Care homes: coronavirus testing guidance
  Includes how to test care home staff for COVID-19 and managing residents and staff who test positive.
• Coronavirus asymptomatic testing in school, further education and childcare settings
  Guidance on coronavirus asymptomatic testing in schools and colleges.
• Home testing kits guidance: schools and further education providers
  Guidance to support schools, settings and further education providers in offering home test kits.
• Using the coronavirus home testing kit
  How to use the coronavirus home testing kit if you think you have coronavirus.
• Lateral flow testing for people without symptoms
  How COVID-19 lateral flow tests work and their role in our national testing programme.
• Employers: coronavirus test, trace, protect guidance
  Employers' responsibilities to help with coronavirus testing and contact tracing.
• Test, trace, protect: information for download
  Critical worker toolkit, multilingual posters and easy reads about coronavirus testing, symptoms and contact tracing.
• Test, trace, protect: simple guide for autistic people
  Simplified guidance explaining the test, trace and protect process.
• Test, trace and protect: privacy and data protection
  Explains how the personal data collected for coronavirus testing and contact tracing is handled.
• Symptom-free COVID-19 community testing
  COVID-19 testing for those without symptoms is now available in Merthyr Tydfil, Bridgend and Rhondda Cynon Taf.
• Antibody testing: coronavirus (COVID-19)
  Explains antibody testing for COVID-19 including that it cannot tell people whether they are immune.
• Regional coronavirus testing facilities
  Wales’ testing capacity is supported by an extensive network of facilities across the country.
• 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.
• COVID-19 hospital patient testing framework: March 2021
  How health organisations should approach patient testing in hospitals to reduce the spread of coronavirus.
• Asymptomatic testing: education and childcare settings
  Guidance for education and childcare settings for twice weekly testing at home.

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.
• COVID-19 testing strategy
  Policy and strategy
  The updated COVID -19 strategy also looks at the role of testing alongside vaccinations.
• Testing for coronavirus: weekly updates
  Collection
  Includes the number and results of coronavirus tests, who was tested and where they were tested.
• Review of testing for COVID-19
  Policy and strategy
  Review of our plan and improvements on testing key (critical) workers.
• COVID-19 community testing framework
  Policy and strategy
  How we will develop locally-led community testing to identify and isolate COVID-19 cases in the community to stop the spread of coronavirus.
• COVID-19 workplace testing framework
  Policy and strategy
  How we will offer COVID-19 testing to private and public sector workplaces.