How to care for people with Covid at home

With roughly one in 30 Londoners testing positive for coronavirus, and other areas of the country experiencing rapid rises in cases, there’s a fair chance that someone in your household may become infected at some point.

The growing burden on hospitals may also mean more patients being discharged early, leaving other household members to pick up their care.

, reducing the spread of Covid within households – with support and an information campaign – could help cut hospitalisations and deaths. “We estimate that if all the [precautionary] measures outlined in this paper were followed and an overall 25% reduction in within-household transmission risk were achieved, this could lead to a prevalence of