New PBS drug: Anti-viral COVID pill could help reduce hospitalisations for people with mild to moderate symptoms Federal Paxlovid, a prescription-only oral medication to treat COVID-19, will be available to at-risk Australians under the PBS from May.
TGA gives early approval to first oral treatments for COVID in Australia January 20, 2022 By Jackson Graham Federal The medicine is for adults with the virus who do not need oxygen but are at increased risk of progressing to hospital or dying.