Coronavirus - Easy Read Guides and Other Language Guides
The following resources may be useful for communities to share the latest Coronavirus (COVID-19) advice online in languages other than English, including easy read and British Sign Language
Easy Read and Other Languages Guides
All information on this page is based on national guidance and evidence-based sources. We update the translated guidance on this page as soon as it is released, but in some cases it may not be available yet, so it may be older. Use the links below to find the latest guidance in English:
The new guidance for Doncaster
Local restriction tiers from 2nd December 2020
COVID-19 Information: Stay Home, Protect the NHS, Save Lives
Coronavirus: social distancing other in other languages
Covid-19- reducing transmission- What you can do to help
Guidance for households with possible or confirmed coronavirus infection
Guidance on shielding and protecting people defined on medical grounds as extremely vulnerable
Use the links below to find the latest guidance in different language
Covid-19 infographics in different languages (Downloadable)
Arabic
Guidance on shielding and protecting people who are clinically extremely vulnerable from Covid-19
Video: COVID-19 Spot the Signs (Arabic)
Video: COVID-19 Essential Advice (Arabic)
Video: COVID-19 Handwashing (Arabic)Bengali
Guidance on shielding and protecting people who are clinically extremely vulnerable from Covid-19
Video: COVID-19 Handwashing (Bengali)
Bulgarian
Chinese
Czech
- Coronavirus info - 992 UPDATED CZECH Download (23KB - DOCX)
Video: COVID-19 Essential Advice (Czech)
Video: COVID-19 Spot the Signs (Czech)
Video: COVID-19 Handwashing (Czech)Gujarati
Hungarian
- Coronavirus info - 992 UPDATED HUNGARIAN Download (23KB - DOCX)
Kurdish Sorani
- Coronavirus info - 992 UPDATED-KURDISH Download (108KB - PDF)
Video: COVID-19 Spot the Signs (Kurdish Sorani)
Video: COVID-19 Handwashing (Kurdish Sorani)
Video: COVID-19 Essential Advice (Kurdish Sorani)Latvian
- Coronavirus info - 992 UPDATED LATVIAN Download (23KB - DOCX)
Lithuanian
- Coronavirus info - 992 UPDATED LITHUANIAN Download (23KB - DOCX)
Polish
Guidance for households with possible or confirmed coronavirus infection
Guidance on shielding and protecting people who are clinically extremely vulnerable from Covid-19
- coronavirus-leaflet-polish (1) Download (231KB - PDF)
- Corona-Energy-Saving-Tips-12pt_POLISH_v1
- Download (192KB -PDF)
- Corona-Energy-Factsheet_12pt_POLISH_v1
- Download (195KB - PDF)
Video: COVID-19 Handwashing (Polish)
Punjabi
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Guidance for households with possible or confirmed coronavirus infection
Guidance on shielding and protecting people who are clinically extremely vulnerable from Covid-19
- Corona-Energy-Saving-Tips-12pt_PUNJABI_v2
- Download (203KB - PDF)
- Corona-Energy-Factsheet_12pt_PUNJABI_v2-1
- Download (520KB - PDF)
Video: COVID-19 Spot the Signs (Punjabi)
Video: COVID-19 Handwashing (Punjabi)
Video: COVID-19 Essential Advice (Punjabi)Romani
- coronavirus-leaflet-romani Download (225KB - PDF)
A leaflet in Romanes about Coronavirus
A video in Romanes about coronavirus
Video explaining social distancing in the Romanian Romanes dialect
Romanian
- NHS Covid-19 App (Romanian)
- Coronavirus info - 992 UPDATED ROMANIAN Download (23KB - DOCX)
- coronavirus-leaflet-romanian (1) Download (228KB - PDF)
Video: COVID-19 Essential Advice (Romanian)
Russian
- coronavirus-leaflet-russian Download (329KB - PDF)
Slovak
- Coronavirus info - 992 UPDATED SLOVAK Download (23KB - DOCX)
Video: COVID-19 Handwashing (Slovak)
Video: COVID-19 Spot the Signs (Slovak)
Video: COVID-19 Essential Advice (Slovak)
Video: Video explaining social distancing in the Slovak Romanes dialect
Video: Video in Slovak Romanes providing Covid 19 guidance and encouraging people to access NHS services
Urdu
Guidance for households with possible or confirmed coronavirus infection
Guidance on shielding and protecting people who are clinically extremely vulnerable from Covid-19
- Coronavirus info - 992 UPDATED URDU Download (38KB - DOC)
- coronavirus-leaflet-urdu Download (300KB - PDF)
- Corona-Energy-Saving-Tips-12pt_URDU_v1
- Download (228KB - PDF)
- Corona-Energy-Factsheet_12pt_URDU_v2
- Download (601KB - PDF)
Video: Promoting Positive Mental Health
Video: COVID-19 Handwashgin (Urdu)
Video: COVID-19 Spot the Signs (Urdu)
Video: COVID-19 Essential Advice (Urdu)
Radio show hosted by Dr Parveen Ali from in Urdu, covering a range of health issues.
Angina, Cardiac conditions and impact of COVID19
Dr Mo Slatter’s health radio show on Fever FM in Urdu
Easy Read
- coronavirus-leaflet-easy-read Download (7.84MB - PDF)
Coronavirus: Social Distancing
- Hand Wash_Easy Read Download (208KB - PDF)
Video: Stay at Home Advice from the NHS
Stopping Coronavirus. What you can do to help
Guidance on shielding and protecting people who are clinically extremely vulnerable from Covid-19
British Sign Language
- Home isolation advice for those with symptoms 15&30s Social/TVad (mp4)
- Essential Advice 29s (mp4)
- Spot the signs 23s (mp4)
- How to use the NHS 25s (mp4)
- Face Touching 32s (mp4)
easy read poster/handout of the standard poster (pdf)
audio version (using radio ad) 40s (mp3)
Additional resources not listed above can be found at the following websites
Stay Alert Audio
Doctors of the World in partnership with the British Red Cross have produced Coronavirus advice for patients in 45 languages
Emerging Minds have produced resources for parents and carers to support children and young people with worries about COVID-19
Stay at Home Save Lives (video format) translated into different languages
Bradford Talking Media have produced a range of translated and BSL resources using national guidance documents including impact of social distancing.
General resource for parents in lots of languages
This links to a range of local groups and services. Including BAME
Find local groups and services
Cultural and Minority Ethnic Resources
(including information in additional languages)
Asylum Seekers, Refugees and Recent Immigrants
Gypsy, Roma, Traveller
COVID-19 Resources for supporting Gypsy, Traveller And Boater Communities
CORONAVIRUS - Mesaj din partea bisericii Rugul Aprins Londra. / Message from "Rugul Aprins" church
Places of worship
- Covid-19 guidance for mosques from Muslim Council of Britain: https://mcb.org.uk/resources/coronavirus/#item
- The Muslim Council of Britain have produced a COVID-19 Muslim burial resource.
- Covid-19 Guidance for Churches from The Church of England: https://www.churchofengland.org/more/media-centre/coronavirus-covid-19-guidance-churches#na
- Covid-19 Guidance for Gurdwaras from:
- Network of Sikh Organisations: http://nsouk.co.uk/covid-19-advice-for-reopening-gurdwaras/
- From Sikh Council UK: https://sikhcouncil.co.uk/riskassesments/
Further Information
If you have any comments or queries about this page please contact us
- email: publichealthenquiries@doncaster.gov.uk
- Tel: 01302 734581
- Generic Coronavirus Poster
- Download (528KB - PDF)
- House in multiple occupation poster
- Download (186KB - PDF)
- Hands, Face, Space pic poster
- Download (2.62MB - PDF)
- Hands, Face, Space Poster
- Download (80KB - PDF)
- hands-face-space_translations
- Download (9.18MB - ZIP)
- SLOVAK - NEW Capacity for Testing
- Download (13KB - DOCX)
- ROMANIAN - NEW Capacity for Testing
- Download (14KB - DOCX)
- POLISH - NEW Capacity for Testing
- Download (13KB - DOCX)
- KURDISH SORANI - NEW Capacity for Testing
- Download (16KB - DOCX)
- ARABIC - NEW Capacity for Testing
- Download (14KB - DOCX)
- BAME COVID PLAN Dec 2020 public
- Download (62KB - DOCX)