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Patients can now use the COVID care self-checker online

Queensland Health’s online COVID Care Self-Checker is now available for COVID-positive and COVID-symptomatic patients. Patients can complete the online self-check to help assess the level of care they might need while unwell.

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New COVID-19 oral treatments

The Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) has granted provisional approval to two oral COVID-19 treatments:

  • PAXLOVID (nirmatrelvir + ritonavir) – Pfizer Australia Pty Ltd
  • LAGEVRIO (molnupiravir) – Merck Sharp & Dohme (Australia) Pty Ltd.
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Taskforce releases new recommendation for Lagevrio

The National COVID-19 Clinical Evidence Taskforce has released a further recommendation for the use of molnupiravir (Lagevrio).

In addition to at-risk unvaccinated adults, also consider using molnupiravir within 5 days of symptom onset in adults with COVID-19 who do not require oxygen and are immunosuppressed or not immunocompetent regardless of vaccination status; or have received one or two doses of vaccine and who are at high risk of severe disease on the basis of age and multiple risk factors and where other treatments (such as sotrovimab or nirmatrelvir plus ritonavir) are not suitable or available.

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