Table of contents

  1. Using this guide
  2. Circuit breaker
  3. Clinically extremely vulnerable
  4. Coronavirus and COVID-19
  5. Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme
  6. Deaths and COVID-19
  7. Extended households
  8. Eat Out to Help Out
  9. Firebreak
  10. Furlough
  11. Local lockdowns and restrictions
  12. Lockdown
  13. Long COVID
  14. New variants of the coronavirus
  15. NHS Test and Trace
  16. Outbreak or pandemic?
  17. Pre-coronavirus, pre-pandemic and pre-lockdown
  18. Quarantine
  19. R number
  20. Self Employment Income Support Scheme Grants
  21. Self-isolation
  22. Shielding
  23. Social distancing
  24. Spread
  25. Support bubble
  26. Vaccines and vaccinations 

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NHS Test and Trace

Each country of the UK has introduced its own test and trace service to help stop the spread of coronavirus (COVID-19). These are:

Unless specifically referring to services in Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland, use “NHS Test and Trace” or “NHS Test and Trace service”. Include the link to the GOV.UK page for the first use of the term in each section. 

Do not use: 

  • “Test and Trace” 
  • “Test and Trace service” 
  • “test and trace” with lower case 
  • “testing and tracing”