ADB provides $125M to help boost Philippines' COVID-19 health response

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has recently approved a $125 million loan to help the Philippine government improve its...

September 3, 2020 | Thursday | News
Hong Kong launches COVID-19 alert system

Researchers from Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU) have developed a COVID-19 alert system which will send a ...

September 1, 2020 | Tuesday | News
Survey reveals key challenges arising from new COVID-19 screening processes

The US healthcare delivery system has received never seen before shocks over the past four months. Including, COVID-19 s...

September 1, 2020 | Tuesday | News
Merck KGaA kickstarts two-day APAC virtual conference on "Lessons from a Pandemic"

A 2-day virtual event organized by Merck KGaA, across the Asia Pacific region aims to serve as a platform to share scien...

August 31, 2020 | Monday | News
Beximco inks COVID-19 vaccine pact with Serum Institute of India

Beximco Pharmaceuticals Limited (BPL) in Bangladesh and the Serum Institute of India Pvt. Ltd (SII), have announced an a...

August 31, 2020 | Monday | News
DSG, Bestat partner in building COVID-19 clinical trials in Singapore

US based DSG, Inc., a global leader of eClinical software solutions and services for the life sciences industry along wi...

August 28, 2020 | Friday | News
Abbott's COVID-19 antigen test receives FDA emergency use authorization

Abbott, a global healthcare leader recently announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued E...

August 27, 2020 | Thursday | News
HKBN unveils UV-C disinfection to fight COVID-19

HKBN Enterprise Solutions has announced the launch of innovative, one-stop disinfection solutions to help companies main...

August 27, 2020 | Thursday | News
Celltrion initiates Ph I trial for COVID-19 drug in Korea

Celltrion Group has announced that the Korean Ministry of Food and Drug Safety (MFDS) has approved the company’s I...

August 27, 2020 | Thursday | News
India, Russia liaise to manufacture Sputnik V vaccine in India

On 25 August 2020, Indian Health Ministery announced that a dialogue has been exchanged between India and Russia on...

August 26, 2020 | Wednesday | News
OTSAW tests first live coronavirus sample using disinfection robot

Singapore based OTSAW has built the world's first successfully laboratory tested human coronavirus exterminating machine...

August 26, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Seoul Viosys promotes violeds to sterilize coronavirus

South Korea based Seoul Viosys, is promoting new Violeds technology solution, the world’s first ultraviolet LED te...

August 24, 2020 | Monday | News
Singapore develops highly sensitive COVID-19 antibody test

Singapore based biomedical firm Restalyst has developed a COVID-19 antibody test, COVID19N-REAAD™, which will be i...

August 24, 2020 | Monday | News
AnteoTech develops high-sensitivity 15-min COVID-19 antigen test

Brisbane based AnteoTech Ltd has successfully developed proof-of-concept COVID-19 antigen and Flu A&B point-of-care ...

August 24, 2020 | Monday | News
KT Corp develops AI-based COVID-19 research

KT Corp., South Korea's largest telecommunications company, is developing a COVID-19 infection risk assessment...

August 21, 2020 | Friday | News
Malaysia detects 10x infectious coronavirus strain D614G

Malaysia has detected a strain of the new coronavirus that’s been found to be 10 times more infectious than the st...

August 21, 2020 | Friday | News
Taiwan approves first COVID-19 vaccine for human trials

For the first time ever, Taiwan's Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has given conditional approval for the experimental...

August 21, 2020 | Friday | News
AI accelerates drug repurposing to find potential COVID-19 therapies, says GlobalData

Out of all the different approaches available to find new therapies to treat COVID-19, drug repurposing is one of the fa...

August 19, 2020 | Wednesday | Analysis
Achiko extends COVID-19 ecosystem platform in Indonesia

Headquartered in Switzerland, Achiko AG (ACHI) has recently announced the deployment of Teman Sehat to a further, extend...

August 20, 2020 | Thursday | News
South Korean church donates plasma worth $83B for COVID-19 cure

At a time when the entire world is reeling under the impact of COVID-19, members of Shincheonji Church from South Korea ...

August 20, 2020 | Thursday | News
Japan studies inhibitory effect of hydroxy radicals on coronavirus

Panasonic Corporation has announced that it, in partnership with Mayo Yasugi, Associate Professor, Department of Ve...

August 20, 2020 | Thursday | News
South East Asia benefits from soaring gloves business

With the Chinese products not being utilized by some of the countries, the focus has now been shifted to the other South...

August 19, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Australia to supply Oxford COVID-19 vaccine for free

Australia has inked an agreement with British pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca to supply Australians with the ...

August 19, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Novavax, SK Bioscience announce COVID-19 vaccine collaboration

US based Novavax, Inc., a late stage biotechnology company developing next-generation vaccines for serious infectious di...

August 17, 2020 | Monday | News
Yale School receives FDA nod for COVID-19 saliva test

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has issued an emergency use authorization (EUA) to Yale School of Public Health fo...

August 17, 2020 | Monday | News