The coronavirus Covid-19 pandemic presents unprecedented challenges for governments, businesses, and individuals across the world. You can find the most up-to-date government advice and support below.

Latest government advice and information

Stay at home.

Only go outside for food, health reasons, or essential work

Stay 2 meters (6ft) away from other people

Wash your hands as soon as you get home

Advice for employers

The Government’s business support website provides information on coronavirus related financial support, coronavirus related business support and wider business support. A number of new measures have been introduced to mitigate against some of the inevitable challenges the local, UK, and global economy will face. These include:

A Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme

The option to defer VAT and Income Tax payments

A Statutory Sick Pay relief package for small and medium sized businesses (SMEs)

A 12-month business rates holiday for all retail, hospitality, leisure and nursery businesses in England

Small business grant funding of £10,000 for all business in receipt of small business rate relief or rural rate relief

Grant funding of £25,000 for retail, hospitality and leisure businesses with property with a rateable value between £15,000 and £51,000

The Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan Scheme offering loans of up to £5 million for SMEs through the British Business Bank

A new lending facility from the Bank of England to help support liquidity among larger firms, helping them bridge coronavirus disruption to their cash flows through loans

The HMRC Time To Pay Scheme

There is also £500,000 of funding available for technology companies who come up with digital support solutions for people who need to stay at home because of coronavirus. You can find details of the scheme here.

Useful links

How to keep your employees safe

How to clean workplaces safely

Statutory Sick Pay (SSP): employer guide

Find out what to do for different businesses and organisations

UK businesses trading internationally

What the government is doing to help business

Extra protection for businesses with ban on evictions for commercial tenants who miss rent payments