Australia reports no specific risk for Pfizer vaccine in elderly patients

On January 14, 2021 the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) received reports of about 30 deaths in over 40,000 e...

February 2, 2021 | Tuesday | News
Moderna to supply 40M COVID-19 Vaccine doses to Korea

Moderna, Inc., a biotechnology company pioneering messenger RNA (mRNA) therapeutics and vaccines, on Jan 31, 2021,&...

January 31, 2021 | Sunday | News
Singapore provides important clinical implications for COVID-19 management

Antibodies and T cells are components of the human immune system that directly act against viral infections and eliminat...

February 2, 2021 | Tuesday | News
Seegene develops world first COVID-19 variant test

South Korea's biotechnology firm Seegene has developed the world's first COVID-19 diagnostic variant test, capable ...

February 1, 2021 | Monday | News
CEPI Call provides up to $140 M in funding to vaccine developers

Norway based CEPI, the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations, has opened a new funding opportunity to support ...

January 29, 2021 | Friday | News
South Korean medical AI firm to assist COVID-19 screening and diagnosis in Indonesia

Lunit, a South Korean medical AI software company, on Jan 27, 2021, announced a partnership with a leading PACS provider...

January 28, 2021 | Thursday | News
Japan supports precision prediction model for COVID-19 outcomes

BC Platforms, a global leader in clinical and genomic data management, analytics and access, has announced that it has j...

January 28, 2021 | Thursday | News
GI-Cell, IVI ink MOU to develop next-generation COVID-19 vaccine

GI-Cell, an affiliate of GI-Innovation, a biotechnology company for cell therapy development, signed a memor...

January 27, 2021 | Wednesday | News
Malaysia secures 18.4 M doses of Sputnik V and Sinovac vaccines

Health ministry in Malaysia has inked agreements to purchase Russian Gamaleya's Sputnik V vaccine (18.4 M doses) an...

January 28, 2021 | Thursday | News
Bioalpha strengthens COVID-19 vaccine distribution in Malaysia

Bioalpha International Sdn Bhd (BISB), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Bioalpha, has entered into a Procurement and Di...

January 27, 2021 | Wednesday | News
Medigen Vaccine Biologics initiates Ph 2 trial of COVID-19 vaccine in Taiwan

Medigen Vaccine Biologics Corporation (MVC), a biopharmaceutical company focusing on the development and production of v...

January 29, 2021 | Friday | News
COMIRNATY becomes first COVID-19 vaccine to receive EUA in Hong Kong

BioNTech SE and Shanghai Fosun Pharmaceutical (Group) Co., Ltd. have announced that according to the Food...

January 27, 2021 | Wednesday | News
Australia provisionally approves Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine

The Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) has provisionally approved the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine for use in Au...

January 25, 2021 | Monday | News
COVAX announces new agreement, plans for initial doses of vaccine deliveries

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

January 25, 2021 | Monday | News
New Zealand develops early warning indicator for viral infection

Datamine, a New Zealand based AI company, has created ëlarm: a personal early warning indicator for viral...

January 25, 2021 | Monday | News
UAE authorises Sputnik V vaccine in fight against coronavirus

The Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) announces the UAE Ministry of Health and Prevention (MOHAP) has authorised the...

January 25, 2021 | Monday | News
Envirotainer invests in Taiwan to spearhead fast delivery of COVID-19 vaccines

Envirotainer, the global market leader and by far the largest provider of secure cold chain solutions for air transport ...

January 22, 2021 | Friday | News
Australia secures additional vaccine workforce

The Australian government is preparing for the COVID-19 vaccine rollout by securing an additional vaccine workforce and ...

January 22, 2021 | Friday | News
HKU develops multi-purpose IoT device to enable public safety alert

A team led by Dr K.K.Y. Wong and Dr Y.K. Choi at the Department of Computer Science of the University of Hong Kong (HKU)...

January 21, 2021 | Thursday | News
Erba launches advanced SARS-CoV-2 RT-PCR assay with RT storage

In response to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, on Jan 21, 2021 Erba launched the ErbaMDx SARS-CoV-2 RT-PCR Kit for detect...

January 22, 2021 | Friday | News
Pfizer and BioNTech invitro vaccine study shows efficient neutralization of SARS-CoV-2 U.K. strain

Pfizer Inc and BioNTech SE on Jan 20, 2021 announced results from an in vitro study that provides additional d...

January 21, 2021 | Thursday | News
WHO's Emergency Committee to review the emerging variants of SARS-CoV-2

The sixth meeting of the Emergency Committee (EC) convened by the WHO Director-General under the International Heal...

January 18, 2021 | Monday | News
Singapore setting up multiple COVID-19 vaccination centres

To support COVID-19 vaccination efforts, the Singapore government is setting up four COVID-19 vaccination centres this m...

January 18, 2021 | Monday | News
EUROIMMUN launches SARS-CoV-2 test system to detect T-cell response

PerkinElmer has announced that its EUROIMMUN business, based in Germany, has launched a SARS-CoV-2 Interf...

January 15, 2021 | Friday | News
Japan looking for comprehensive COVID-19 vaccination

Japan is aggressively making efforts to vaccinate its population for COVID-19 with a strong focus on signing pre-orders....

January 15, 2021 | Friday | Analysis
PerkinElmer SARS-CoV-2 RT-PCR assay receives FDA EUA for asymptomatic testing

PerkinElmer, Inc. announced on Jan 14, 2021 that its PerkinElmer® New Coronavirus Nucleic Acid D...

January 15, 2021 | Friday | News
SaferMe announces new wearable contact tracing solution in US

SaferMe, the business focused contact tracing provider that was funded and adopted by the New Zealand government, announ...

January 14, 2021 | Thursday | News
CEPI reveals significance of blood markers in assessing vaccine efficacy

The past few weeks have seen the regulatory approval of multiple safe and effective vaccines against Sars-CoV-2, the v...

January 14, 2021 | Thursday | News
Korean firm presents solution package for coping with COVID-19

Hanmi Pharmaceutical, based in South Korea, has announced its global strategy and a solution package for coping wit...

January 13, 2021 | Wednesday | News
The rate of positive tests: COVID19

Just as it is not informative to look at case counts in isolation it is also not informative to look at the number of te...

January 9, 2021 | Saturday | News
Thailand secures 2 M doses of COVID-19 vaccine

Ministry of Public Health Thailand has announced that it has secured the first 2 million doses of COVID-19 vac...

January 8, 2021 | Friday | News
Indonesia to begin COVID-19 vaccination from Mid January

Indonesia is ready to initiate a nationwide COVID-19 mass vaccination program from mid-January2021.&nbs...

January 7, 2021 | Thursday | News
Korea designs low cost negative pressure room for COVID-19 patients

Researchers at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) have developed a low-cost and r...

January 7, 2021 | Thursday | News
Chinese firm develops antigen test kit to detect new SARS-COV-2 variant

As the world watches a concerning new strain of SARS-COV-2 first identified in the United Kingdom, one global biote...

January 7, 2021 | Thursday | News
KPower inks $6M deal to supply COVID-19 PCR kits to Indonesian firm

The Board of Directors of KPower have announced that KPower Healthcare & Technologies Sdn. Bhd. (KPHealthTech) in ...

January 6, 2021 | Wednesday | News
UK invents COVID-19 RNA test giving results within minutes

University of Birmingham researchers have invented a COVID-19 test that reduces testing time from 30 minutes to under fi...

January 5, 2021 | Tuesday | News
Cellid inks vaccine research service contract with IVI

Cellid and the International Vaccine Institute (IVI) in South Korea have exchanged a collaborative research agreement to...

January 5, 2021 | Tuesday | News
Inovio adds Asian manufacturing resource to COVID-19 vaccine candidate

INOVIO, a US based biotechnology company focused on bringing to market precisely designed DNA medicines to treat and pro...

January 5, 2021 | Tuesday | News
Singapore plans vaccine injury financial assistance programme

The Ministry of Health (MOH) at Singapore will introduce a vaccine injury financial assistance programme to provide supp...

January 4, 2021 | Monday | News
Australia injects $10 M for high potential COVID-19 related clinical trials

By mid-2021, volunteers aged between 18 and 75 years will be recruited for an accelerated clinical trial of two ‘n...

January 4, 2021 | Monday | News
Fujifilm applies for manufacturing and marketing approval for a SARS-CoV-2antigen test kit

Fujifilm Corporation on 17 Dec 2020 announced that it has filed an application with the Pharmaceuticals and Medical Devi...

January 4, 2021 | Monday | News
India approves SII and Bharat Biotech's Covid-19 vaccines, EUA

The Drug Controller General of India (DCGI) has approved Serum Institute of India (SII) Covishield (developed by Ox...

January 4, 2021 | Monday | News
Singapore initiates COVID-19 vaccination with Pfizer-BioNTech jab

Singapore kick-started its national Covid-19 vaccination programme on 30 Dec 2020, with a senior staff nurse w...

January 1, 2021 | Friday | News
CEPI partners India based vaccines developer to advance COVID-19 vaccine candidate

CEPI, the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations and Biological E Limited, India (Bio E), a Hyderabad-based vac...

December 31, 2020 | Thursday | News
Taiwan secures 10 M doses of AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine

Taiwan's Health Minister and Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) has announced that the country has purchased ...

January 1, 2021 | Friday | News
AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine receives EUA in the UK

AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine has been approved for emergency supply in the UK, with the first doses being releas...

December 31, 2020 | Thursday | News
Panthera to evaluate AstraZeneca’s AZD7442 for the potential prevention of COVID-19

Panthera’s clinical trial sites in Preston, North Manchester and North London began dosing volunteers in the Phase...

December 30, 2020 | Wednesday | News
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
Tychan to begin Ph 3 trial for mAb TY027 against COVID-19

In June 2020, Tychan began its Phase 1 clinical safety trials in humans to evaluate TY027, a monoclonal antibo...

December 14, 2020 | Monday | News
Australia secures 20 M extra Astra Zeneca vaccine doses

On the basis of scientific advice, the Australian Government has secured an additional 20 million doses of the promising...

December 11, 2020 | Friday | News
Singapore’s Resolute 2.0 Covid-19 test kit approved by HSA for deep throat saliva testing

Advanced MedTech Holdings (AMTH), a global medical technology leader headquartered in Singapore, announced today that th...

December 11, 2020 | Friday | News
Gates Foundation commits additional $250M in global effort against COVID-19

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has announced that it will commit an additional $250 million to support th...

December 11, 2020 | Friday | News
Korea's Violeds technology provides escalator handrail sterilization solution

Seoul Wei Fate, a leading provider of compound semiconductor solutions, in order to help prevent the spread of the virus...

December 10, 2020 | Thursday | News
Singapore uses AI to find best combination therapies for COVID-19

A team of researchers from the National University of Singapore (NUS) has utilised a ground-breaking artificial int...

December 10, 2020 | Thursday | News
Singapore to contribute $5,000,000 to COVID-19 Vaccine Global Access AMC mechanism

Singapore, like any other country, understands that the successful development of safe and efficacious vaccines is ...

December 9, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Malaysia joins CEPI donating $3 M to advance vaccine R&D

Malaysia has announced funding of $3 million to the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) to help suppo...

December 9, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Technology leaders to enhance data analytics capabilities in Singapore’s Healthcare Industry

In an initiative to advance healthcare services with artificial intelligence, SAS, a leader in analytics, and Hewle...

December 8, 2020 | Tuesday | News
Australia boosts nursing services to strengthen pandemic response

The Australian Government’s early action to rapidly increase the number of skilled Registered Nurses (RN) to treat...

December 7, 2020 | Monday | News
Seegene's COVID-19/FluA,B/RSV test now available in Europe

South Korea's biotechnology company specializing in molecular diagnostics, Seegene Inc. has announced that the extr...

December 7, 2020 | Monday | News
Achiko teams up with Udayana University for Covid-19 testing research in Indonesia

Achiko AG, headquartered in Zurich, with offices in Hong Kong, Jakarta, Singapore and Seoul and Indonesia based Uda...

December 4, 2020 | Friday | News
INOVIO expands global manufacturing consortium for its COVID-19 vaccine candidate

INOVIO, a biotechnology company focused on bringing to market precisely designed DNA medicines to treat and protect peop...

December 4, 2020 | Friday | News
EuBiologics partners with IVI for COVID-19 vaccine development

The International Vaccine Institute (IVI) and South Korean company EuBiologics exchanged an MOU to cooperate in the clin...

December 4, 2020 | Friday | News
Initial COVID-19 global vaccines roll-out to see some vaccine nationalism

A new report from CPhI explores the potential implications in 2021 of impending vaccine approvals, a new administration ...

December 4, 2020 | Friday | News
Experts elaborate on Asia's confidence and challenges with COVID-19 vaccine

Vaccine confidence has never been more important, as the world waits for the first COVID-19 protection options to move t...

December 3, 2020 | Thursday | News
Pfizer and BioNTech achieve world first authorization for COVID-19 vaccine

Pfizer Inc. and BioNTech SE have announced that the Medicines & Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHR...

December 2, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Singapore discovers role of protein in detecting common cold virus

The role of a protein in detecting the common cold virus and kickstarting an immune response to fight infection has been...

December 2, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Australia invests additional $132.2 M for aged care COVID response

The Australian Government will invest a further $132.2 million in its response to the Aged Care Royal Commission&rs...

December 2, 2020 | Wednesday | News
BioNTech-Pfizer apply CMA for COVID-19 Vaccine to the EMA

BioNTech SE and Pfizer Inc. on 30 Nov 2020 have submitted a formal Application for Conditional Marketing ...

December 2, 2020 | Wednesday | News
COVID R&D Alliance announces first patient enrollment in COMMUNITY Trial

Three members of the COVID R&D Alliance - Amgen Inc, Takeda Pharmaceutical Co Ltd and UCB announced the fi...

December 2, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Thailand leverages leading technologies to expand Alternative State Quarantine (ASQ)

Thailand Ministry of Public Health (MOPH) and Department of Health Service Support (HSS) recently announced that th...

December 1, 2020 | Tuesday | News
Korean firm donates protective masks to Indian hospital

Marine Bio Co Ltd, a South Korean firm with the support of the Korean Trade-Investment Promotion Agency (KOTRA)&nbs...

December 1, 2020 | Tuesday | News
Singapore unveils portable genetic test for COVID-19

Cell ID Pte. Ltd., a Singapore-incorporated med-tech company, is selling a palm-sized portable genetic test kit that use...

November 30, 2020 | Monday | News
AstraZeneca vaccine meet primary efficacy endpoint in preventing COVID-19

Positive high-level results from an interim analysis of clinical trials of AZD1222 in the UK and Brazil showed the vacci...

November 27, 2020 | Friday | News
Australia invests $4 million for new COVID-19 research

The Australian Government is supporting six new COVID-19 research projects across four institutions, allowing resea...

November 27, 2020 | Friday | News
WHO coordinates with DHL to deliver healthcare supplies to Pacific Islands

The World Health Organization coordinated its latest cargo donation through DHL Global Forwarding (DHL), the freight spe...

November 26, 2020 | Thursday | News
Israel discovers antibody combo to fight COVID-19

Researchers at the Laboratory of Human Antibody Research at Tel Aviv University’s Sackler Faculty of Medicine have...

November 26, 2020 | Thursday | News

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