Covid antivirals an option for the Queen under care of medical household
by Ben Quinn from on (#5WB90)
Monarch said to have mild symptoms, but staff may look to drugs recently approved in UK
With the Queen approaching her 96th birthday in April, there was always going to be concern about her contracting Covid, but the monarch has tested positive against a radically different backdrop from when the virus arrived in the UK.
In addition to the protection afforded by her vaccinations - and she is understood to have had a booster - she could also be given antiviral drugs approved by UK authorities as recently as December.
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