Tests are also available to a small number of groups without symptoms including health and social care staff, those visiting others in health and care settings, and those providing close personal care to someone at higher risk should they contract COVID-19 . In further developments, the self-isolation period after a positive COVID-19 test has been reduced to five days, and advice has been updated for those with general symptoms of a respiratory virus including COVID. Adults who test positive for COVID-19 are advised to stay home and avoid contact with other people for five days after the day of the test or from the day symptoms started.