COVID-19 Antiviral Medication
Getting COVID-19 medicine from our Pharmacy without a prescription.
If you have COVID-19 symptoms - Phone us to check your eligibility
You may be eligible to get COVID-19 antiviral medicines without a prescription from our pharmacy
You have tested positive, OR
You have COVID-19 symptoms in the last FIVE days AND are a Household contact of a positive case.
People can get free antiviral medicine, if:
they have just caught COVID-19 (or they are a probable case, or household contact of positive case); and their symptoms started within 5 days; AND they fit in one of these eight groups:
Māori or Pacific people AND aged 50 years or older; or
Aged 65 years or older; or
Aged 50 years or older AND have not been given at least two doses of COVID-19 vaccination; or
Is severely immunocompromised; or
Has Down syndrome; or
Has sickle cell disease; or
Previously in critical care or a hospital high dependency unit because of COVID-19; or
Any age with three or more high risk medical conditions. These include :
chronic lung or airways disease
serious heart conditions such as congestive heart failure, coronary artery disease, rheumatic heart disease, and congenital heart disease
hypertension/ High blood pressure
chronic neurological or neuromuscular disease
diabetes
chronic kidney disease
severe liver disease such as cirrhosis
severe haematological disorders
severe mental illness such as schizophrenia, major depressive disorder, bipolar or schizoaffective disorder
active cancer
morbid obesity (BMI greater than 35)
sickle cell disease
Down syndrome.
If you have COVID-19 symptoms – DO NOT come into the pharmacy - Phone us to check your eligibility.
Phone: 03 338 8244