COVID-19: A Crash Course on ‘The Art of Living’!

Most of our life time efforts are bound in securing a good future, but time and again it has been proved that it is not ...

December 6, 2021 | Monday | Opinion
Taiwan explores mix-and-match booster trial of COVID-19 vaccines

The Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) and Taiwan-based Medigen Vaccine Biologics Corp. (MVC) will c...

December 6, 2021 | Monday | News
Webinar: COVID-19 Molecular Testing – Supporting Back to Life & Work

On-demand webinar is available now Duration: 60 minutes Language: English Platform: Virtual   Key Topics: L...

December 28, 2021 | Tuesday | News
ADB approves $1.5 B for COVID-19 vaccines in India

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved a $1.5 billion loan to help the Government of India purchase safe and effe...

December 1, 2021 | Wednesday | News
US partners with Thailand to combat COVID-19 pandemic

The United States (US) delivered one million life-saving doses of the Moderna mRNA vaccine to help Thailand fight COVID-...

November 26, 2021 | Friday | News
Pakistan receives funding worth $11.7 M for mix-and-match trial of COVID-19 vaccines

Norway-based Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) and the Aga Khan University (AKU) have announced a n...

November 25, 2021 | Thursday | News
Japan finds risk factors associated with waning immunity of Pfizer vaccine

New research from Japan, led by Jichi Medical University, has found several risk factors associated with greater wa...

November 22, 2021 | Monday | News
China's Clover Biopharma receives additional funding for booster dose evaluation

China-based Clover Biopharmaceuticals and Norway-based CEPI, the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovat...

November 19, 2021 | Friday | News
China's COVID-19 vaccine CoronaVac to be safe for children and adolescents

China-based SINOVAC Biotech has announced that results from blind data analysis of a multi-centre, case-driven, ran...

November 18, 2021 | Thursday | News
Thailand supports Vietnam’s fight against COVID-19

Permanent Secretary for Foreign Affairs Thani Thongpakdi, together with President of the Thailand-Vietnam Friendship Ass...

November 12, 2021 | Friday | News
Japan to buy 1.6M courses of Merck's COVID-19 pill

Merck, known as MSD outside the United States and Canada, and Ridgeback Biotherapeutics have announced that the Japanese...

November 11, 2021 | Thursday | News
Singaporean startup designs unique LED disinfection solutions

Singapore-based Ecosparks has designed a first-of-its-kind LED UV-C Air Disinfection Solution capable of killing the COV...

November 8, 2021 | Monday | News
WHO releases an open letter to G20 leads to accelerate vaccine availability

WHO is emphasizing the poorest countries which are struggling to procure a reliable and adequate supply of vaccines and ...

November 3, 2021 | Wednesday | News
NZ secures anti-viral drug to treat medium-to-severe COVID-19 symptoms

New Zealand has secured access to an important new COVID-19 drug that can save lives and cut time in hospital. Heal...

November 3, 2021 | Wednesday | News
Novavax, Serum Institute of India get EUA for COVID-19 vaccine in Indonesia

US-based Novavax, Inc. and Serum Institute of India have announced that the National Agency of Drug and Food Contro...

November 1, 2021 | Monday | News
Australia gives recognition to India's Covaxin & China's Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccine

The Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) in Australia has determined that Covaxin (manufactured by Bhar...

November 1, 2021 | Monday | News
ACT-Accelerator strategy calls for $23.4 B investment for global access to COVID-19 solutions

The Access to COVID-19 Tools (ACT) Accelerator has launched its strategic plan and budget for the next 12 months, outlin...

October 29, 2021 | Friday | News
Australia approves Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine booster dose

The Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) in Australia has approved a booster dose of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine for i...

October 27, 2021 | Wednesday | News
Australia launches new tool to explain COVID-19 risks

A calculator to help people understand their risk factors for COVID-19 infection and vaccination has been launched by th...

October 25, 2021 | Monday | News
Addressing Consumer Questions About COVID Booster Shots

1. Who Is Eligible for a COVID Booster Shot?   As of now, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CD...

October 25, 2021 | Monday | Opinion
Australia explores 'cell fitness' for predicting health outcomes in COVID-19 patients

Cell fitness has been identified as a way of predicting health outcomes in COVID-19 patients, according to a University ...

October 19, 2021 | Tuesday | News
Australia secures access to two additional COVID-19 treatments

The Australian government has secured access to two additional COVID-19 treatments to support the National Plan to Trans...

October 18, 2021 | Monday | News
Australia's Topelia to raises $25M in Series A funding for Antiviral Triple Therapy (ATT)

Topelia Australia, a biotech company established to commercialize a novel ATT treatment for Australians in quarantine, h...

October 14, 2021 | Thursday | News
Singapore recommends booster dose of mRNA vaccine for healthcare workers

The Expert Committee on COVID-19 Vaccination (EC19V) in Singapore recommends that the healthcare and frontline workers; ...

October 11, 2021 | Monday | News
Singapore uses indoor air sampling surveillance to sniff out COVID-19

A team of scientists and doctors from the Singapore Centre for Environmental Life Sciences Engineering (SCELSE) at Nanya...

October 8, 2021 | Friday | News
Australia's SpeeDx expands portfolio of SARS-CoV-2 genotyping reagents

SpeeDx., based in Australia, continues to expand its line of research reagents for the analysis of COVID-19 variants.&nb...

October 7, 2021 | Thursday | News
Indonesian commercial banks to finance the Indonesian healthcare sector

Bank Central Asia (BCA), a leading Indonesian commercial bank, and Impact Credit Solutions (ICS) have partnered to offer...

September 30, 2021 | Thursday | News
Serum Institute, Novavax submit COVID-19 vaccine emergency use listing to WHO

Indian vaccine manufacturer Serum Institute of India (SII) and its US-based partner Novavax, have announced a regulatory...

September 24, 2021 | Friday | News
India gives nod to use of inhaled Ampion for COVID-19-related respiratory distress

US-based Ampio Pharmaceuticals has announced regulatory approval from the Drugs Controller General of India (DCGI) ...

September 22, 2021 | Wednesday | News
Korea fully approves first monoclonal antibody treatment for COVID-19

Celltrion Group has announced that the Korean Ministry of Food and Drug Safety (MFDS) has approved regdanvimab (CT-P59),...

September 21, 2021 | Tuesday | News
Singapore deploys vending machines to distribute antigen rapid test kits

The Ministry of Health (MOH) in Singapore is deploying 100 vending machines across 56 locations islandwide, for distribu...

September 20, 2021 | Monday | News
Experts at NZ call for better mask guidelines to stop COVID-19

A new rapid evidence brief, Improving mask use to stop COVID-19 transmission, from Koi Tū: The Centre for Inf...

September 17, 2021 | Friday | News
Korea investigates link between vaccine side effects and antibody formation

A joint research team led by Professor Park Wan Beom of Seoul National University Hospital and Professor Song Kyung-Ho o...

September 17, 2021 | Friday | News
India to collaborate with East Asian partners for COVID-19 vaccines, medical technologies

At the 9th EAS-EMM (East Asia Summit-Economic Ministers’ Meeting), Anupriya Patel, Minister of State for...

September 16, 2021 | Thursday | News
Australia develops nanoworms-based anti-viral coating for face masks

A coating developed at The University of Queensland in Australia has already proven effective in killing the virus that ...

September 16, 2021 | Thursday | News
Singapore approves brand names for Pfizer & Moderna COVID-19 vaccines

The Health Sciences Authority (HSA) in Singapore has approved the application by Pfizer to introduce the branded version...

September 16, 2021 | Thursday | News
Singapore receives extra 101,000 doses of SINOVAC COVID-19 vaccines (CoronaVac®)

SINOVAC Biotech Ltd. is supplying 101,000 doses of the inactivated COVID-19 vaccine (CoronaVac®), to Singapore. ...

September 15, 2021 | Wednesday | News
Singapore designs computer model to reduce COVID-19 infections and deaths

A team of scientists from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) has developed a predictive compute...

September 15, 2021 | Wednesday | News
UK launches antibody surveillance program to analyze COVID-19 infection/vaccination

UK Health Security Agency to launch UK-wide antibody surveillance programme for the general public for the first time H...

September 14, 2021 | Tuesday | News
Convalescent plasma doesn’t help seriously ill COVID-19 patients: Canadian study

A major study has found that convalescent plasma does not reduce the risk of intubation or death for COVID-19 patients. ...

September 13, 2021 | Monday | News
Israeli researchers develop molecular 'super cork' approach to battle Coronavirus

Even though vaccines may be steering the world toward a post-pandemic normal, a constantly mutating SARS-CoV-2 necessita...

September 13, 2021 | Monday | News
China's Clover Biopharma to launch protein-based COVID-19 vaccine by 2021-end

China-based Clover Biopharmaceuticals has announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary, Zhejiang Clover Biopharmaceut...

September 13, 2021 | Monday | News
NHS injects an extra £5.4 billion to support COVID related assistance

The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) has announced that NHS (National Health Service) in England wi...

September 9, 2021 | Thursday | News
World's first Nano cellular broad-spectrum COVID-19 vaccine developing in Australia

EnGeneIC Limited, an Australian, Sydney-based biotechnology company, has developed a globally unique nano cellular techn...

September 8, 2021 | Wednesday | News
Australia brings world's first nasal swab designed specifically for children

Rhinomed Limited, based in Australia, has completed development of the world's first nasal swab designed specifically fo...

September 8, 2021 | Wednesday | News
The EU secures 200 million COVID-19 vaccine doses by AstraZeneca

The EU and AstraZeneca have reached an agreement that will secure the delivery of the remaining COVID-19 vaccine doses t...

September 7, 2021 | Tuesday | News
Resisting & Adapting to Infectious Diseases to Prevent Future Pandemics

For over a year the world has been battling the newly emerged infectious disease: the SARS-CoV-2 virus that caused the C...

September 8, 2021 | Wednesday | Opinion
Vax cocktail endgame against COVID-19

Vaccine mixing, which began unintentionally, is now gaining traction. There is a significant interest in mixing two diff...

September 6, 2021 | Monday | Opinion
Singapore recommends additional dose of mRNA COVID-19 vaccine for seniors, immunocompromised

The Expert Committee on COVID-19 Vaccination (EC19V) in Singapore has been closely reviewing the data regarding the need...

September 6, 2021 | Monday | News
Regencell Bio to offer traditional medicines for COVID-19 treatment in ASEAN countries

Regencell Bioscience Holdings Limited has announced that Regencell Bioscience, the company’s wholly-owned subsidia...

September 2, 2021 | Thursday | News
Singapore's rapid T-cell test tracks immune response to COVID-19

Researchers from Duke-NUS Medical School, together with collaborators from the National Centre for Infectious Diseases (...

September 2, 2021 | Thursday | News
NZ raises alertness on myocarditis and pericarditis symptoms post-vaccination

The COVID-19 Vaccine Independent Safety Monitoring Board (CV-ISMB) has advised the Ministry of Health in New Zealand to ...

August 30, 2021 | Monday | News
Australia considering COVID-19 vaccination for all adolescents

Recommendations from the Australian Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation (ATAGI) are under consideration for establi...

August 27, 2021 | Friday | News
Health Ministry in NZ studies COVID-19 impact on local population

Victoria University of Wellington has been awarded a contract for one of its health research centres to carry out a stud...

August 26, 2021 | Thursday | News
Chinese pharma to commercialize Proxalutamide for COVID-19 treatment in Indonesia

Kintor Pharmaceutical Limited, a clinical-stage biotechnology company developing innovative small molecule and biologica...

August 26, 2021 | Thursday | News
J&J gives data to support boosting its single-shot COVID-19 vaccine

Johnson & Johnson (J&J) has announced data supporting the use of its COVID-19 vaccine as a booster shot for...

August 25, 2021 | Wednesday | News
Taiwan introduces enhanced COVID-19 surveillance programmes

The Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) in Taiwan has pointed out that it has formulated strengthened COVID-19 survei...

August 25, 2021 | Wednesday | News
Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine receives full approval from USFDA

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved the first COVID-19 vaccine. The vaccine has been known as the Pfizer-...

August 24, 2021 | Tuesday | News
Medigen rolls-out adjuvanted COVID-19 vaccine in Taiwan

Taiwan-based Medigen Vaccine Biologics Corporation (MVC) and Dynavax Technologies Corporation, in th...

August 23, 2021 | Monday | News
World’s first Plasmid DNA vaccine for COVID-19 receives EUA in India

Indian pharma firm Zydus Cadila has received the Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) from the Drug Controller General of I...

August 20, 2021 | Friday | News
Australia approves additional antibody treatment for COVID-19

Australians with COVID-19 who are at risk of hospitalisation will now have access to an additional antibody treatment, a...

August 20, 2021 | Friday | News
Agilent reveals development of COVID-19 severity screening method

Agilent Technologies Inc. has announced that researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT-B) ...

August 19, 2021 | Thursday | News
New study at Singapore could underpin a 'dream' vaccine for future outbreaks

Scientists from Duke-NUS Medical School and National Centre for Infectious Diseases (NCID) in Singapore have found that ...

August 19, 2021 | Thursday | News
Taiwan clinically compares three USFDA approved COVID-19 detection systems

A team of scientists at the National Defense Medical Center and Centers for Disease Control in Taiwan has conducted...

August 18, 2021 | Wednesday | News
Bangladesh inks COVID-19 vaccine production agreement with China

An agreement has been signed between the Sinopharm of China, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, People’s Repub...

August 17, 2021 | Tuesday | News
UK's Birmingham researchers unravel novel fast and accurate COVID-19 test

Researchers from the University of Birmingham, U.K., have developed an accurate and sensitive novel testing me...

August 17, 2021 | Tuesday | News
FedEx delivers COVID-19 vaccines to South Korea

FedEx Express, a subsidiary of FedEx Corp. and one of the world’s largest express transportation companies, delive...

August 17, 2021 | Tuesday | News
Prolexus launches antiviral face mask ProXmask in Malaysia

ProXmask™ is the first antiviral face mask mass-produced in the Asia Pacific by Prolexus Group. The...

August 17, 2021 | Tuesday | News
Thermo Fisher receives EUA for two next-gen COVID-19 assays

Thermo Fisher Scientific has announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted emergency use author...

August 17, 2021 | Tuesday | News
HDT Bio, Quratis to co-develop innovative COVID-19 vaccine in Asia

US-based HDT Bio Corp has announced an agreement with Korean biotech Quratis Inc. to co-develop HDT’s revolutionar...

August 17, 2021 | Tuesday | News
Taiwan's digital trade elites gather to create business opportunities in Japanese market

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic and the rise of digital consumption patterns, as well as assist companies in their ...

August 16, 2021 | Monday | News
Taiwan's Centre for Drug Evaluation initiates new drug trial against COVID-19

US-based Senhwa Biosciences, Inc. has announced that its novel oral drug, Silmitasertib, has been included in Taiwa...

August 16, 2021 | Monday | News
Australia rolls-out rapid antigen testing in aged care facilities

The Australian government is providing COVID-19 rapid antigen testing (RAT) to residential aged care facilities in Great...

August 16, 2021 | Monday | News
Taiwan provides new information on pathogenesis of SARS-CoV-2 infection

A team of researchers at the National Institute of Infectious Diseases and Vaccinology in Taiwan is providing new i...

August 13, 2021 | Friday | News
US FDA authorizes third vaccine dose for immunocompromised individuals

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has amended the emergency use authorizations (EUAs) for both the Pfizer-BioN...

August 13, 2021 | Friday | News
Australian study indicates an increased risk of TB and COVID-19 in pre-diabetes individuals

The laboratory research at Australia's Brisbane’s Translational Research Institute found pre-diabetes worsens the ...

August 11, 2021 | Wednesday | News
Moderna to set-up mRNA vaccine manufacturing facility in Canada

Moderna, Inc., a biotechnology company pioneering messenger RNA (mRNA) therapeutics and vaccines, on Aug 10, 2021 announ...

August 11, 2021 | Wednesday | News
Japan reveals adverse events following COVID-19 vaccination in youngsters

A cross-sectional study was recently conducted to clarify the adverse events of COVID-19 vaccines in Japanese young popu...

August 11, 2021 | Wednesday | News
USFDA grants EUA to Hong Kong's INDICAID COVID-19 Rapid Antigen Test

Hong Kong-based PHASE Scientific International has announced that its INDICAID™ COVID-19 Rapid Antigen Test (...

August 11, 2021 | Wednesday | News
Singapore discovers small molecule inhibitors for COVID-19

Currently, the only treatment for COVID-19 approved by the US FDA is Remdesivir, but it has to be administered via intra...

August 11, 2021 | Wednesday | News
Korea's SK bioscience plans Ph III COVID-19 vaccine trial in multiple countries

The International Vaccine Institute (IVI) is partnering with SK bioscience of South Korea to conduct Phase III clinical ...

August 11, 2021 | Wednesday | News
Australia grants provisional registration for Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine

US-based Moderna, Inc. has announced that the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) has granted provisional regist...

August 10, 2021 | Tuesday | News
First rapid at-home diagnostic test for COVID-19 enters Asia

Hong Kong-based New World Development (NWD) and Prenetics have jointly announced the launch of the Circle HealthPod...

August 10, 2021 | Tuesday | News
UK develops customizable anti-viral FFP3 masks for medical staff

The United Kingdom's NHS is producing masks to fight against COVID-19 and microparticle infection. QE Facilities Lt...

August 9, 2021 | Monday | News
Taiwan allows mixing of COVID-19 vaccines for healthcare workers

The Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) in Taiwan has pointed out that frontline medical personnel in COVID-19 design...

August 9, 2021 | Monday | News
Lab-grown beating heart cells vulnerable to SARS-CoV-2 infection: Cambridge study

A team of scientists at the University of Cambridge (UK) has used human embryonic stem cells to grow clusters of heart c...

August 6, 2021 | Friday | News
UK firms to support Indian biotherapeutic companies with antibody development

Fusion Antibodies, pre-clinical antibody discovery, and development experts, and BioTickle, their exclusive distributor ...

August 6, 2021 | Friday | News
BMG Pharma's nasal spray, mouth rinse achieve efficacy in preventing COVID-19

Milan headquartered biopharmaceutical and B2B company BMG Pharma with its chemical plant in Torviscosa (Italy), conducte...

August 4, 2021 | Wednesday | News
Japan builds mathematical simulator to guide COVID-19 isolation policies

In a new study, a multi-national effort that included researchers at the Institute for Advanced Study of Biology (ASHBi)...

August 4, 2021 | Wednesday | News
Groundbreaking collaboration to bring mRNA vaccine technology to Vietnam

US-based startup Arcturus Therapeutics Holdings Inc. has announced an agreement with Vinbiocare Biotechnology Joint Stoc...

August 3, 2021 | Tuesday | News
Glenmark, SaNOtize to commercialise COVID-19 nasal spray in Asia

Indian firm Glenmark Pharmaceuticals and Canadian biotech firm SaNOtize Research & Development Corp have announced a...

August 2, 2021 | Monday | News
Korea's LOTTE Chemical expands development of PP materials for vaccination syringes

LOTTE Chemical, based in South Korea, has produced the polypropylene (PP) required for medical applications using German...

August 2, 2021 | Monday | News
Medigen ropes in new CRO partner for COVID-19 vaccine development in Taiwan

QPS, a global contract research organization (CRO) that focuses on bioanalytical products and clinical trials, has partn...

August 2, 2021 | Monday | News
Singapore launches cPass™ Surrogate Virus Neutralisation Test (sVNT) kit

Singapore has launched a novel serological test "cPass™, or the surrogate virus neutralization test to detect the ...

July 30, 2021 | Friday | News
Taiwanese startup iXensor launches integrated COVID-19 screening solution

iXensor, a startup based in Taiwan, has launched the next generation of integrated COVID-19 screening solution, the ...

July 27, 2021 | Tuesday | News
Moderna COVID-19 vaccine to be available in Thailand from Q4, 2021

ZP Therapeutics, a division of Zuellig Pharma, has announced an official agreement with the Government Pharmaceutical Or...

July 27, 2021 | Tuesday | News
Taiwan sets up epidemiological investigation assistance platform

The Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) in Taiwan has announced that to prepare for the lowering of the epidemic aler...

July 26, 2021 | Monday | News
Japan develops 20-min test to detect antibodies against SARS-CoV-2

A team of scientists from Japan, at Hokkaido University’s Faculty of Engineering, has developed a 20-minute test t...

July 26, 2021 | Monday | News
Korea helps India prepare for 3rd COVID-19 wave

Six South Korean companies have joined hands to offer their help to the Delhi government, India with medical equipment a...

July 26, 2021 | Monday | News
Australia approves Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine for 12 to 15-year-olds

Australia’s COVID-19 vaccination rollout has taken another step forward with the Pfizer vaccine being approved for...

July 26, 2021 | Monday | News

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