Are they asking people returning from other countries to self-isolate? Still can't get over the fact my cousin is pulling a shift in patient care at a London hospital 3 days after returning from 10 days in Spain.
Yes, I believe so. They have also ramped up testing, with healthcare workers being tested and retested.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-51943612
At the moment only people in hospital are being routinely tested, so if you have symptoms and you are not sure if you have the virus, you may well not be able to find out.
As of 19 March, 64,621 people in the UK had been tested for coronavirus. The number of tests has been rising from just over 1,000 a day at the end of February, when testing began, to more than 6,000 per day by mid-March.
The government plans to increase this to 10,000 a day initially, with a goal of reaching 25,000 tests a day within four weeks.