Singapore approves INEX Innovate's RT-PCR COVID-19 detection kit

INEX Innovate, a Singapore-based molecular diagnostics developer, has announced that the Singapore Health Sciences ...

December 31, 2020 | Thursday | News
NIH funds research to study pediatric COVID-19 and related conditions

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) in the US has awarded eight research grants to develop approaches for identifyin...

December 31, 2020 | Thursday | News
Indonesia donates $1 M to further CEPI's vaccine research

The Government of Indonesia and Norway based CEPI, the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations,  have a...

December 29, 2020 | Tuesday | News
New Zeland to provide $75 M for Pacific and global COVID-19 vaccination support

New Zealand has announced $75 million of Official Development Assistance earmarked to support Pacific and global v...

December 29, 2020 | Tuesday | News
ZEKNANO rapid Covid test kit reveals vaccine efficacy in five minutes

Swiss high-tech company ZENUM has developed one of the most advanced technologies in the fight against Covid-19, and it ...

December 29, 2020 | Tuesday | News
Malaysia responds to COVID-19 threats through frugal innovations

Researchers from Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) have swung into action to respond to the threat posed by COVID-19 p...

December 29, 2020 | Tuesday | News
Korea secures COVID-19 vaccines via deals with Janssen, Pfizer

The Korean government has concluded deals with global pharmaceutical giants Janssen of Johnson and Johnson and...

December 28, 2020 | Monday | News
Australia rolls out strategies for COVID-19 vaccine supply and distribution

Australian Government has announced that it has signed contracts with the companies to partner for safe distributio...

December 28, 2020 | Monday | News
Argentina officially registers Sputnik V vaccine

The Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) announces the registration of the Russian Sputnik V vaccine against coronaviru...

December 24, 2020 | Thursday | News
New Zealand secures AstraZeneca & Novavax COVID-19 vaccines

The New Zealand Government will purchase COVID-19 vaccines from pharmaceutical companies AstraZeneca and Novavax, me...

December 24, 2020 | Thursday | News
NZ takes action on face masks not meeting quality standards

The Ministry of Health in New Zealand (NZ) has advised District health boards (DHBs) to put on hold their stocks of...

December 23, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Suntrap Life Technologies discovers natural anti-COVID-19 compound

As the new coronavirus began to spread globally, Suntrap Life Technologies Ltd established a special research team. The ...

December 23, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Hyundai Bioscience develops injection drug for COVID-19 treatment

Hyundai Bioscience has announced that CNPharm, its major shareholding biotech company, has succeeded in developing 'Poly...

December 23, 2020 | Wednesday | News
A highly transmissible mutant variant of coronavirus on the loose

A new variant of the virus that causes COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2) has been identified across the South East of England. The v...

December 22, 2020 | Tuesday | News
Harbour BioMed licenses SARS-CoV-2 neutralizing Ab to AbbVie for COVID-19 treatment

China based Harbour BioMed and Utrecht University in the Netherlands have announced that they licensed to American firm ...

December 22, 2020 | Tuesday | News
COVAX plans global rollout of COVID-19 vaccine starting Q1 2021

COVAX, the global initiative to ensure rapid and equitable access to COVID-19 vaccines for all countries, regardless of ...

December 21, 2020 | Monday | News
BD surpasses 1B injection device orders for COVID-19 vaccination

BD, a leading global medical technology company, has announced that it has received orders for needles and syringes in t...

December 18, 2020 | Friday | News
Moderna assures COVID-19 vaccine supply to Singapore

Moderna, Inc., a US based biotechnology company pioneering messenger RNA (mRNA) therapeutics and vaccines to create a ne...

December 18, 2020 | Friday | News
Sputnik V vaccine shows 91.4% efficacy in phase 3 clinical trials

The National Research Center for Epidemiology and Microbiology named after N.F. Gamaleya of the Ministry of Health of th...

December 15, 2020 | Tuesday | News
Fosun Pharma inks agreement with BioNTech for COVID-19 vaccine supply in China

BioNTech and Shanghai Fosun Pharmaceutical (Group) Co, Ltd have announced an agreement to supply Mainland China with 100...

December 16, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Indian startup unveils safe MTM to store COVID-19 samples at RT for up to a week

Azooka Labs, a leading safe fluorophore company based in India with specialization in Molecular Biology products, reveal...

December 16, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Novel PCR test by EUROIMMUN differentiates between COVID-19 and Flu

EUROIMMUN, a PerkinElmer, Inc. Company, has announced the launch of the CE marked EURORealTime SARS-CoV-2/Influenza...

December 15, 2020 | Tuesday | News
Singapore shares COVID-19 vaccination strategy with newly approved Pfizer vaccine

With the Health Sciences Authority approval of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine for emergency use in Singapore, the ...

December 14, 2020 | Monday | News
Singapore approves Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine

The Health Sciences Authority (HSA) has granted an authorization 14 Dec 2020 under the Pandemic Special Access...

December 14, 2020 | Monday | News
CEPI and SK Bioscience to develop next generation COVID-19 vaccine

CEPI, the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations, has announced a collaboration with South Korea-based SK Bio...

December 14, 2020 | Monday | News