COVID-19 antiviral medicines

  • COVID-19 antiviral medicines can help people who are at risk of becoming very sick with COVID-19. These medicines are free.

  • You can get free antiviral medicines if you:

    • have COVID-19 and symptoms or you are a Household Contact and have symptoms, and

    • became sick within the last 5 days, and

    • are eligible for the medicine.

  • Eligible people include:

    • Māori or Pacific people aged 50 or over

    • everyone aged 65 or over

    • anyone aged 50 or over with fewer than 2 COVID-19 vaccinations

    • anyone with a severely weakened immune system

    • anyone with Down syndrome

    • anyone with sickle cell disease

    • anyone who has previously been in critical high dependency hospital care from COVID-19

    • anyone with 3 or more high-risk medical conditions.

  • More information can be found here on the Unite against COVID-19 website

  • Two social tiles are attached to this email detailing Who can get free antiviral medicines and How to get free antiviral medicines