[VIDEO] Fancy pharmaceuticals? Your guide to the newest COVID treatments

Molnupiravir, a COVID treatment that can reduce people’s chances of falling seriously ill or dying, could be in South Africa by the end of the year.

South Africa’s medicines regulator is currently reviewing applications for emergency approval of the pills.

The tablets do not replace vaccines but work to stop the virus from making copies of itself after you’ve been infected.

South Africa’s medical regulator is currently reviewing applications for an oral COVID treatment called molnupiravir. The tablet can reduce people’s chances of falling very ill or dying from the disease. Here’s how it works.