Covid antivirals an option for the Queen under care of medical household

Monarch said to have mild symptoms, but staff may look to drugs recently approved in UK

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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.