Pharmacists implementing social distancing as HSE advises people to continue taking their medication

The HSE is advising anyone with coronavirus to continue taking any medication they were already taking, unless advised otherwise by a healthcare professional.

Pharmacists nationwide are implementing social distancing as patients pick-up prescriptions.

Community pharmacists have been directed by health authorities to ask patients with respiratory complaints to wait in their car while a prescription is filled out and to place a phone in consultation rooms in light of the coronavirus pandemic.