| Comment | Please make an extra special effort to give blood over the coming days, weeks and months. If you are fit and well and have not been impacted by COVID-19, it's important you come forward to donate.
Am I eligible to donate?
As always, our usual donor eligibility criteria apply. See Can I give blood? for more information.
However, there are also a number of new criteria in place with regards to COVID-19. Currently, you must not donate if you fall into one of the following categories:
You are aged 70 or over
You have COVID-19
You are in self-isolation with symptoms of possible COVID-19
You are well but are in self-isolation because other household members have symptoms of possible COVID-19
If you have shown symptoms of COVID-19, you must not donate until at least 14 days after final symptoms have ceased.
If you were self-isolating because other household members were sick, but you remained symptom free yourself, you must not donate until 14 days after your first day of self-isolation. |
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