The HIVE online directory includes a list of food providers, food banks and businesses offering extra services like deliveries.
You can also find details of local food banks here.
On Monday 21 February, all domestic COVID-19 restrictions have been lifted.
At a glance, from 24 February:
You can still reduce the risk of catching and passing on COVID-19 by staying at home if you’re unwell. Stay at home until you feel better and reduce the risk that you will pass on an illness to your friends, colleagues, and others in your community.
If you have coronavirus symptoms, you are advised to follow the national advice on how to stay safe and help reduce the spread.
Symptomatic and asymptomatic testing continues in some high-risk settings and for some in groups considered at high risk of serious illness if infected with COVID-19. Follow this link to see if you may be eligible.
To help reduce the spread, people testing positive are advised to stay home for five days and avoid contact with anyone, including those who live in the same household. The first five days is when you are most infectious.
If you are unable to stay at home, you are strongly advised to:
You can find out more about when to self-isolate, treating symptoms of coronavirus, and help and support when self-isolating on the NHS website.
If you have been in close contact with someone who has tested positive for coronavirus, you are no longer required to self-isolate – even if you have not been vaccinated.
Close contacts who are fully vaccinated are not asked to test daily for seven days.
It’s really important that we all continue to follow coronavirus safety advice to keep ourselves and others safe.
It’s a good idea to plan ahead and make sure you already have essential items at home in case you need to self-isolate. It might be a few days before you can get supplies, from friends, family or local support services. Think about having:
There is help at hand if you’re worried about self-isolating, if you need help getting essentials like food or medicine, or if self-isolating will cause financial difficulty.
The HIVE online directory includes a list of food providers, food banks and businesses offering extra services like deliveries.
You can also find details of local food banks here.
If you are self-isolating and you’re worried about whether you will get paid while you’re away from work, you can find out about financial support on our work and money pages.
Self-isolating isn’t easy and it can be lonely. If you’re struggling to cope, having difficulty sleeping or managing stress, you’re not alone.
You can find advice on how to protect your mental wellbeing, details on where to go for help, and advice for parents, carers and young people on our mental health and wellbeing page.
If you’re self-isolating, read advice from mental health charity MIND on managing your mental health in relation to coronavirus and self-isolating.
Whatever you’re going through, you can call the Samaritans free anytime, from any phone, on 116 123, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.
It’s important to get medical help if your symptoms get worse. Visit the NHS website for advice on where to get help.
If you cannot get help online, call 111. An advisor will direct to the most appropriate service and can book a slot at the Emergency Department (A&E) if needed.
Children and young people who are self-isolating are encouraged not leave the house.
Portsmouth Education Partnership has an overview of the support available to children, families and schools.
There is support available to students who are self-isolating through the University of Portsmouth.