4 September 2020 - Australia's medicines regulator isn't considering approving any treatments for COVID-19 at the moment, but it's spending hours talking to drug manufacturers about medications and vaccines in clinical trials.
The Therapeutic Goods Administration has already approved the use of Remdesivir to treat COVID-19, but other trials for treatments have fallen over in trial stages.
"We're not just sitting back and waiting for our phones to ring," Health Department deputy secretary John Skerritt, who is responsible for the Therapeutic Goods Administration, told a parliamentary hearing on Thursday.