Addressing Consumer Questions About COVID Booster Shots

COVID19 |  Opinion | By Devin Partida is a medical and health tech writer from San Francisco, California. She also writes about medical technologies, AI and cybersecurity on ReHack.com. | 0 Comment | 25 Oct, 2021

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

Australia explores 'cell fitness' for predicting health outcomes in COVID-19 patients

COVID19 |  News | 0 Comment | 19 Oct, 2021

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

Australia secures access to two additional COVID-19 treatments

COVID19 |  News | 0 Comment | 18 Oct, 2021

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

Australia's Topelia to raises $25M in Series A funding for Antiviral Triple Therapy (ATT)

COVID19 |  News | 0 Comment | 14 Oct, 2021

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

Singapore recommends booster dose of mRNA vaccine for healthcare workers

COVID19 |  News | 0 Comment | 11 Oct, 2021

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

Singapore uses indoor air sampling surveillance to sniff out COVID-19

COVID19 |  News | 0 Comment | 08 Oct, 2021

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

Australia's SpeeDx expands portfolio of SARS-CoV-2 genotyping reagents

COVID19 |  News | 0 Comment | 07 Oct, 2021

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

Indonesian commercial banks to finance the Indonesian healthcare sector

COVID19 |  News | 0 Comment | 30 Sep, 2021

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

Serum Institute, Novavax submit COVID-19 vaccine emergency use listing to WHO

COVID19 |  News | 0 Comment | 24 Sep, 2021

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

India gives nod to use of inhaled Ampion for COVID-19-related respiratory distress

COVID19 |  News | 0 Comment | 22 Sep, 2021

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

Korea fully approves first monoclonal antibody treatment for COVID-19

COVID19 |  News | 0 Comment | 21 Sep, 2021

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

Singapore deploys vending machines to distribute antigen rapid test kits

COVID19 |  News | 0 Comment | 20 Sep, 2021

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

Experts at NZ call for better mask guidelines to stop COVID-19

COVID19 |  News | 0 Comment | 17 Sep, 2021

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

Korea investigates link between vaccine side effects and antibody formation

COVID19 |  News | 0 Comment | 17 Sep, 2021

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

India to collaborate with East Asian partners for COVID-19 vaccines, medical technologies

COVID19 |  News | 0 Comment | 16 Sep, 2021

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

Australia develops nanoworms-based anti-viral coating for face masks

COVID19 |  News | 0 Comment | 16 Sep, 2021

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

Singapore approves brand names for Pfizer & Moderna COVID-19 vaccines

COVID19 |  News | 0 Comment | 16 Sep, 2021

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

Singapore receives extra 101,000 doses of SINOVAC COVID-19 vaccines (CoronaVac®)

COVID19 |  News | 0 Comment | 15 Sep, 2021

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