SK bioscience receives marketing authorisation of COVID-19 vaccine in UK

COVID19 |  News | 0 Comment | 31 May, 2023

SK bioscience, based in South Korea, has announced the UK’s Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (M...Read more

Survey: One-third of COVID-19 vulnerable groups avoid booster shots

COVID19 |  Company results | 0 Comment | 25 Apr, 2023

The results from a new YouGov survey called, ‘What’s Next for COVID-19 in Singapore?’, commissioned by...Read more

Taiwan approves Japan-based Chugai Pharma's drug for COVID-19 treatment

COVID19 |  News | 0 Comment | 26 Apr, 2023

Chugai Pharma Taiwan Ltd., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Japan's Chugai Pharmaceutical, has obtained an import drug licen...Read more

Australian government injects $50 M more for research into long COVID

COVID19 |  News | 0 Comment | 24 Apr, 2023

The Australian Government will provide a further $50 million from the Medical Research Future Fund (MRFF) for research i...Read more

Taiwan expands eligibility for using Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine as booster for children

COVID19 |  News | 0 Comment | 17 Apr, 2023

The Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) in Taiwan has reported that the Advisory Committee on Immunisation Practices ...Read more

NZ-based diagnostic startup Pictor raises $5 M for product development

COVID19 |  News | 0 Comment | 06 Dec, 2022

New Zealand (NZ)-based startup Pictor, with operations in US and India, has announced a funding round to help accelerate...Read more

CanSino Biologics rolls out inhaled vaccine Convidecia Air in Shanghai

COVID19 |  News | 0 Comment | 01 Nov, 2022

CanSino Biologics has announced that its recombinant COVID-19 vaccine (Adenovirus Type 5 Vector) for inhalation (Convide...Read more

Singapore authorises Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine for kids

COVID19 |  News | 0 Comment | 30 Sep, 2022

The Health Sciences Authority (HSA) has authorised Pfizer’s Comirnaty COVID-19 vaccine on 28 September 2022, for t...Read more

China's BGI donates Huo-Yan Air Laboratory to Thailand

COVID19 |  News | 0 Comment | 20 Sep, 2022

On September 19, 2022, Anutin Charnvirakul, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Public Health, Dr Satit Pitutecha, Dep...Read more

Australia identifies unique biomarkers of SARS-CoV-2 acute infections, Long COVID

COVID19 |  News | 0 Comment | 21 Sep, 2022

Researchers at the Australian National Phenome Centre (ANPC) at Murdoch University have successfully detected and quanti...Read more

Singapore grants interim authorisation for first bivalent COVID-19 booster vaccine

COVID19 |  News | 0 Comment | 14 Sep, 2022

Singapore Health Sciences Authority (HSA) has granted an interim authorisation for the use of Moderna’s Omicr...Read more

Australia to focus research on five virus families likely to cause future pandemics

COVID19 |  News | 0 Comment | 30 Aug, 2022

The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Australia's national science agency,...Read more

Pfizer emerges as leading company in Asia for COVID-19 response

COVID19 |  News | 0 Comment | 27 Aug, 2022

Pfizer has been ranked first in its COVID-19 response, patient centricity, patient safety and bringing innovative, high-...Read more

Singapore extends use of Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine for kids

COVID19 |  News | 0 Comment | 24 Aug, 2022

  The Health Sciences Authority (HSA) in Singapore has extended the authorisation of Moderna’s Spikevax COVI...Read more

Long COVID-19 study in Australia identifies potential diagnostic and therapeutic targets

COVID19 |  News | 0 Comment | 23 Aug, 2022

Australia-based Antisense Therapeutics has announced the outcomes from its collaboration to study the neurological aspec...Read more

Mitigate COVID-19 impact on the Construction Industry

COVID19 |  News | 0 Comment | 22 Aug, 2022

The city-state Singapore is currently facing another wave of COVID-19 infections driven by the Omicron variants, BA.5 an...Read more

USFDA grants EUA to Novavax COVID-19 vaccine for adolescents

COVID19 |  News | 0 Comment | 22 Aug, 2022

Novavax has announced that its COVID-19 caccine, Adjuvanted (NVX-CoV2373) has received expanded emergency use autho...Read more

Nuvaxovid gets expanded provisional approval in NZ as COVID-19 booster for adults

COVID19 |  News | 0 Comment | 18 Aug, 2022

US-based Novavax has announced that New Zealand (NZ)'s Medsafe has granted expanded provisional approval for Nuvaxovid (...Read more