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
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
Viet Nam to secure 30 million doses of AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine

Among the four countries, Viet Nam has reached an agreement with the UK-based vaccine producer AstraZeneca to guarantee ...

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
UNICEF, WHO, IFRC and MSF announce the establishment of a global Ebola vaccine stockpile

The four leading international health and humanitarian organizations on Jan 12, 2021, announced the establishment of a g...

January 12, 2021 | Tuesday | News
Merck acquires AmpTec expanding mRNA capabilities for vaccines and diagnostics

Merck, a leading science and technology company, on Jan 7, 2021 announced the acquisition of Am...

January 8, 2021 | Friday | News
LG Chem contributes to global polio eradication with new vaccine

South Korean firm LG Chem has announced that its Sabin-Inactivated Polio Vaccine (Sabin-IPV) Eupolio™ received Wor...

January 8, 2021 | Friday | 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
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
Chinese firm initiates R&D of liquid nitrogen biological containers for vaccines storage

CIMC Enric Holdings has announced that its subsidiary Zhangjiagang CIMC Sanctum Cryogenic Equipment Co., Ltd recent...

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
IVI-SK’s new typhoid conjugate vaccine meets primary endpoints in ph III study in Nepal

Vi-DT typhoid conjugate vaccine, developed jointly by the International Vaccine Institute (IVI) and SK bioscience, has m...

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
Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine first to receive emergency validation from WHO

The World Health Organization (WHO) has listed the Comirnaty COVID-19 mRNA vaccine for emergency use, making the Pfizer/...

January 1, 2021 | Friday | 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