What should you do if you think you have got symptoms of coronavirus?

And what happens when you get tested?

Health Minister David Ashford explained that you should take action if you have a continuous cough that’s not gone away for seven days and/or have a fever.

If you have those symptoms you should ring the new Covid 111 helpline, after first completing an online assessment on www.gov.im/coronavirus

Only those people with those symptoms associated with Covid 19 - a new continuous cough and a fever - should call 111, after completing the online triage form.

If having called 111 you are assessed as needing to be tested, you will be directed to the new mobile testing unit set up at the Grandstand.

The drive-through hub aims at carrying out about 30 tests every day. It actually carried out 76 tests on its first day.

You cannot just turn up at the unit if you have not been directed to do so after ringing 111.

The hub will operate from today (Sunday) during a two-hour window from 10am to midday seven days a week.

Staff are now testing people referred to them on the day by clinicians at the Covid 111 helpline who have assessed their symptoms.

The new hours will ensure that processing is undertaken in a manageable way, now that the team has caught up with a backlog.

Once swabs are taken they have to be prepared for dispatch to the UK by air, where they are taken to a specialist laboratory for analysis. 

If you are a vulnerable individual the test will be carried out at your home.

In this case, a healthcare worker will arrive at your home in an ambulance, kitted out in a full personal protection suit including a mask.

They will take a swab from your mouth or nasal cavity and ask you to go into self-isolation, pending the tests results.

Test results currently take 72 hours to come back.

Mr Ashford said the government was looking to build a facility to process tests on-island. This should be operational by the middle of next month.

The Chief Minister said if your self-isolation is purely precautionary, ie you have travelled back to the island and are not showing symptoms, others living in your house do not need to self-isolate as well.

But if you have symptoms you must self-isolate.

This means staying at home and not popping out to the shops or seeing friends.