China's Envision Group donates medical supplies to fight COVID-19 in India

Envision Group, a leading green technology company based in China, recently donated dozens of oxygen concentrators and 4...

July 14, 2021 | Wednesday | News
Taiwan reformulates COVID-19 vaccine policy as per priority groups

The Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) has pointed out that to increase the first-dose coverage rate among the Taiwa...

July 13, 2021 | Tuesday | News
Australia increases availability of personal protective equipment

The Australian government has announced significant quantities of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) will be made avail...

July 13, 2021 | Tuesday | News
Taiwan deploys AI-based body temp detection technology to contain COVID-19 

Taiwan's Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) is developing epidemic prevention technology amid the COVID-1...

July 12, 2021 | Monday | News
Japan sets COVID-19 drug trials up for success

As scientists continue to search high and low for effective COVID-19 treatments, a new modeling study by Japanese resear...

July 9, 2021 | Friday | News
DrAnsay.com offers online doctor's certificates for antigen self-tests

DrAnsay.com, the market leader for online doctor attests, is offering online test certificates for self-applied rapid an...

July 8, 2021 | Thursday | News
China develops sewage monitoring technology to detect COVID-19 Delta variant

In Hong Kong, the sewage monitoring technology developed by the University of Hong Kong (HKU) multidisciplinary team led...

July 6, 2021 | Tuesday | News
Sri Lanka receives first batch of Pfizer COVID-19 vaccines

A consignment of Pfizer vaccines arrived in Colombo on 5th July, the first batch of 800,000 doses to be delivered in the...

July 6, 2021 | Tuesday | News
Indian-US scientists work on pre-existing immunity in people unexposed to COVID-19

In a study published in the Nature journal, Scientific Reports, an international team of researchers from MedGenome...

July 5, 2021 | Monday | News
DHL Express delivers Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines to Malaysia

DHL Express has delivered the US government's donation of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine. The arrival of around 1,000,000 d...

July 5, 2021 | Monday | News
Scientists propose repurposing anti-malarial drug Mefloquine to fight COVID-19

Japanese scientists are scanning the possibility of using an anti-malarial drug called mefloquine....

July 2, 2021 | Friday | News
Singapore to purchase Monoclonal Ab from GSK and Vir Bio to treat COVID-19

GlaxoSmithKline Singapore and Vir Biotechnology on June 30, 2021, announced an agreement with the Government of Singapor...

June 30, 2021 | Wednesday | News
Third APAC Psychiatry Symposium discusses treatment of mental disorders during COVID-19

At the third Asia Pacific (APAC) Psychiatry Symposium, held online on June 26, more than 1,000 psychiatrists, gener...

June 28, 2021 | Monday | News
Singapore accelerates national vaccination programme

Singapore is accelerating its national vaccination programme, as it has been able to bring forward the delivery of the v...

June 25, 2021 | Friday | News
ADB approves loan worth $940 M for Bangladesh to purchase COVID-19 vaccines

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved a loan package of $940 million for the Government of Bangladesh to purchas...

June 23, 2021 | Wednesday | News
Novavax’s COVID-19 vaccine may face uptake challenges in US: GlobalData

Novavax has further demonstrated excellent results from its pivotal PREVENT-19 vaccine trial. Despite this positive data...

June 22, 2021 | Tuesday | News
Fujitsu Japan deploys world's fastest supercomputer for COVID-19 therapies

Fujitsu Japan has announced that it will initiate a new research project with a research team led by Japan's Resear...

June 22, 2021 | Tuesday | News
Taiwanese firm UBI-Asia inks COVID-19 vaccine deal with Paraguay

Vaxxinity, a US-based company pioneering the development of a new class of immunotherapeutic vaccines, in close collabor...

June 22, 2021 | Tuesday | News