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

1. You have tested positive, OR

2. 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:

1. Māori or Pacific people AND aged 50 years or older; or

2. Aged 65 years or older; or

3. Aged 50 years or older AND have not been given at least two doses of COVID-19 vaccination; or  

4. Is severely immunocompromised; or

5. Has Down syndrome; or

6. Has sickle cell disease; or

7. Previously in critical care or a hospital high dependency unit because of COVID-19; or

8. 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: 04 939 7793