Unwell adults should stay at home and wear a mask if they have to go outside, health chiefs said today amid warnings the NHS is facing more pressure than it did during the peak of the pandemic.
The advice, issued by the UK Health Security Agency, also urges parents to keep their child out of school or nursery if they are ill and have a high temperature — classed as 38C or more.
The actions will help minimise the spread of Covid, flu and scarlet fever which are 'circulating at high levels' and are 'likely' to keep rising in the coming weeks, it said.
