COVID19 News
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Chinese startup iMeddy provides free video medical consultation to COVID-19 patients
COVID19 | News | 0 Comment | 25 Mar, 2022
Amid the severity of the fifth wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, a startup nurtured by The Hong Kong Polytechnic University...Read more
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Singapore recommends second booster dose of mRNA vaccine for 80+
COVID19 | News | 0 Comment | 25 Mar, 2022
The Expert Committee on COVID-19 Vaccination (EC19V) in Singapore has been closely reviewing the data regarding the need...Read more
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Australia to manufacture mRNA vaccines against future pandemics
COVID19 | News | 0 Comment | 24 Mar, 2022
An in-principle agreement was first announced in December last year for a factory to produce 25 million doses a year fro...Read more
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Novavax and SII gets EUA for COVID-19 vaccines for adolescents in India
COVID19 | News | 0 Comment | 23 Mar, 2022
Novavax, a biotechnology company dedicated to developing and commercializing next-generation vaccines for serious infect...Read more
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Malaysia approves CanSinoBIO's COVID-19 vaccine as heterologous booster
COVID19 | News | 0 Comment | 23 Mar, 2022
China-based CanSino Biologics has announced that its Recombinant Novel Coronavirus Vaccine (Convidecia) has been approve...Read more
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Detecting COVID-19 using only a smartphone
COVID19 | News | 0 Comment | 22 Mar, 2022
ResApp Health announced positive results for a new novel cough audio-based COVID-19 screening test that only requires a ...Read more
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Hong Kong study finds that smoking increases risk of COVID-19
COVID19 | News | 0 Comment | 09 Mar, 2022
Researchers from the School of Public Health, LKS Faculty of Medicine of The University of Hong Kong (HKUMed), in collab...Read more
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WHO updates treatment guidelines for molnupiravir
COVID19 | News | 0 Comment | 04 Mar, 2022
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has updated its living guidelines on COVID-19 therapeutics to include a conditional ...Read more
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Achieving equitable access and universal coverage goals for COVID-19 vaccines
COVID19 | Opinion | By Hithaishi C Bhaskar | 0 Comment | 04 Feb, 2022
The pandemic has created an unprecedented pressing need for the development of novel vaccines and their equitable distri...Read more
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Australia approves Pfizer booster for 16–17 year olds
COVID19 | News | 0 Comment | 28 Jan, 2022
The Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) in Australia has approved the Pfizer COVID-19 booster dose for young people a...Read more
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Australia provisionally approves oral COVID-19 pills by Merck & Pfizer
COVID19 | News | 0 Comment | 21 Jan, 2022
The Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) in Australia has issued provisional approval of the first oral treatments for...Read more
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Australia pitches $24 M for telehealth to tackle growing cases of omicron
COVID19 | News | 0 Comment | 18 Jan, 2022
As Omicron case numbers grow, the Australian Government will make temporary changes to Telehealth to give general p...Read more
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Australia gives recognition to Sputnik V vaccine for international travel
COVID19 | News | 0 Comment | 17 Jan, 2022
The Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) in Australia has determined that an additional COVID-19 vaccine, the two dose...Read more
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Singapore recommends booster dose at no later than 9 months
COVID19 | News | 0 Comment | 06 Jan, 2022
The Expert Committee on COVID-19 Vaccination (EC19V) in Singapore recommends that all vaccinated persons aged 18 years a...Read more
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T-cell responses by vaccines and boosters effective against Omicron: Australian study
COVID19 | News | 0 Comment | 03 Jan, 2022
Research from the University of Melbourne in Australia and Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKU...Read more
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Japan-funded study explores antibodies to neutralise omicron
COVID19 | News | 0 Comment | 28 Dec, 2021
An international team of scientists have identified antibodies that neutralize omicron and other SARS-CoV-2 variants. Th...Read more
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Nasal spray to fight COVID-19 heads to clinical trial in Australia
COVID19 | News | 0 Comment | 24 Dec, 2021
An at-home nasal spray treatment for COVID-19 will be put to the test by Melbourne biomedical researchers, as the Univer...Read more
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New Zealand approves use of Ronapreve to prevent & treat COVID-19
COVID19 | News | 0 Comment | 23 Dec, 2021
The Ministry of Health’s medicine regulatory arm Medsafe in New Zealand has approved a new COVID-19 medicine Ronap...Read more
