China launches internationally-accepted in-home COVID-19 swab test

COVID19 |  News | 0 Comment | 21 Oct, 2020

China's local start-up Evercare is proactively rolling out an internationally-accepted, 99.9% accurate COVID-19 tes...Read more

Japan pledges $130M to support global access to COVID-19 vaccines

COVID19 |  News | 0 Comment | 21 Oct, 2020

The global effort to ensure equitable global access to COVID-19 vaccines received a boost with the announcement of a maj...Read more

BioNTech, Pfizer to initiate Ph 1/2 trial of COVID-19 mRNA vaccine candidate in Japan

COVID19 |  News | 0 Comment | 21 Oct, 2020

Pfizer Inc. and BioNTech SE on 21 Oct 2020 announced the start of a Phase 1/2 study in Japan for their BN...Read more

Samsung Biologics partners with Dinona for potential COVID-19 treatment

COVID19 |  News | 0 Comment | 21 Oct, 2020

Samsung Biologics has entered into a partnership agreement with biotech Dinona, further expanding its CDO capabilities t...Read more

Mediven's COVID-19 PCR test obtains 100% result in international study

COVID19 |  News | 0 Comment | 20 Oct, 2020

Malaysia's Medical Innovation Ventures (Mediven®) achieved 100% concordance for GenoAmp®, its COVID-19 PCR test ...Read more

Thailand triggers production of COVID-19 vaccine for 2021

COVID19 |  News | 0 Comment | 19 Oct, 2020

Thailand Ministry of Public Health, Siam Bioscience, SCG and British-Swedish biopharmaceutical company AstraZeneca has s...Read more

Chinese firm unveils revolutionary solution for patient isolation

COVID19 |  News | 0 Comment | 19 Oct, 2020

JUD care, a leading high-tech enterprise in the field of smart medical and healthcare solutions in China, has kicked off...Read more

India curbs Remdesivir price to make COVID-19 treatment more affordable

COVID19 |  News | 0 Comment | 16 Oct, 2020

The Indian state, Maharashtra has become the first to fix the price of remdesivir at INR2,360 (US$32.17), which is 16% m...Read more

Roche SARS-CoV-2 antigen test to support high-volume testing of COVID-19 suspects

COVID19 |  News | 0 Comment | 14 Oct, 2020

Roche announced on 13 Oct 2020 that it intends to launch a high-volume SARS-CoV-2 Antigen test as an aid in th...Read more

Scientific advisory board in Europe to address dysfunctional endothelium in COVID-19

COVID19 |  News | 0 Comment | 14 Oct, 2020

After encouraging results obtained under named patient use in severe cases of COVID-19,  F4 Pharma is now prep...Read more

IQVIA joins FDA to advance COVID-19 understanding through CARE project

COVID19 |  News | 0 Comment | 13 Oct, 2020

US-based IQVIA in scientific partnership with the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), will provide agile analytics fr...Read more

Taiwan inks deal with BioNTech for COVID-19 vaccine delivery

COVID19 |  News | 0 Comment | 13 Oct, 2020

Taiwan based TTY Biopharm Company, has announced that it has received authorization for the delivery of coronavirus vacc...Read more

Honeywell emphasises on improving occupants health in Malaysia

COVID19 |  News | 0 Comment | 13 Oct, 2020

Honeywell has recently launched an integrated set of solutions in Malaysia to help building owners improve the...Read more

Lilly reports reduced recovery time in critically ill COVID-19 patients with Baricitinib

COVID19 |  News | 0 Comment | 12 Oct, 2020

US based Eli Lilly and Company and Incyte shared additional data showing baricitinib in combination with remdesivir...Read more

Korea develops method to detect COVID-19 RNAs in 30 min

COVID19 |  News | 0 Comment | 12 Oct, 2020

A joint Korean research team comprised of Professor Jeong Wook Lee and Ph.D. candidate Chang Ha Woo and Professor Gyoo Y...Read more

SII to produce 200 million COVID-19 vaccines doses for India and LMICs in 2021

COVID19 |  News | 0 Comment | 09 Oct, 2020

A further collaboration among the Serum Institute of India (SII), the world’s largest vaccine manufacturer by volu...Read more

EU secures 400 million doses of Janssen’s COVID-19 Vaccine Candidate

COVID19 |  News | 0 Comment | 09 Oct, 2020

  Johnson & Johnson on 8 Oct 2020 announced that the European Commission (EC), acting on behalf of the Europea...Read more

WHO calls for stronger collective efforts to curtail COVID-19

COVID19 |  News | 0 Comment | 08 Oct, 2020

With the increase in COVID-19 cases in most countries of WHO South-East Asia Region, World Health Organization has calle...Read more