UK Gov have published a step-by-step guide on how to do a COVID-19 rapid throat and nose test at home, either for yourself or a child and how to report the results.
This guide tells you how to:
prepare the test
take a swab sample from yourself or a child
process the sample
read and report the result
Rapid tests are only for people who do not have symptoms of COVID-19, if you have symptoms you should take a PCR test.
The guide is available in English, Easy Read, Large Print, Arabic, Bengali, Chinese (Simplified), Dari, Farsi, Gujarati, Hindi, Pashto, Polish, Punjabi (Indian), Punjabi Shahmukhi, Romanian, Slovak, Somali, Turkish, Urdu and Welsh.
Below you can watch a video (in English) of the Covid-19 Self Test process:
