“An oral-type treatment will be prescribed to patients with severe or critical COVID-19 that are unsuitable to be treated with an injection-type (antiviral). In other words, we have secured another option in our armory to use against COVID-19.” Ministry of Food and Drug Safety Minister Gang-lip Kim

This is what Minister Gang-lip Kim of the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety said, explaining that a new viable strategy for the control and management of COVID-19 will be added with the early use authorization of the oral COVID-19 treatment ‘Paxlovid.’

Although it is too early to jump to a conclusion on whether the oral pill has a better effect than the injectable drug, Minister Kim