Australia reports highest childhood vaccination rates in 2020

On 1 Nov 2020, Australia reported the highest recorded childhood vaccination, with new figures showing four quarters of ...

November 2, 2020 | Monday | News
Takeda expands COVID-19 vaccine supply in Japan

Takeda Pharmaceutical has announced that it will import and distribute 50 million doses of Moderna’s COVID-19...

October 30, 2020 | Friday | News
Moderna announces COVID-19 vaccine supply agreement with Qatar

Moderna Inc. has announced a supply agreement with the Ministry of Public Health of Qatar for mRNA-1273, Moder...

October 29, 2020 | Thursday | News
Russia applies to WHO for vaccine prequalification of Sputnik V

The Russian Direct Investment Fund, (RDIF, Russia's sovereign wealth fund), has submitted applications to...

October 28, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Japan pledges $130M to support global access to COVID-19 vaccines

The global effort to ensure equitable global access to COVID-19 vaccines received a boost with the announcement of a maj...

October 21, 2020 | Wednesday | News
BioNTech, Pfizer to initiate Ph 1/2 trial of COVID-19 mRNA vaccine candidate in Japan

Pfizer Inc. and BioNTech SE on 21 Oct 2020 announced the start of a Phase 1/2 study in Japan for their BN...

October 21, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Thailand triggers production of COVID-19 vaccine for 2021

Thailand Ministry of Public Health, Siam Bioscience, SCG and British-Swedish biopharmaceutical company AstraZeneca has s...

October 19, 2020 | Monday | News
Taiwan inks deal with BioNTech for COVID-19 vaccine delivery

Taiwan based TTY Biopharm Company, has announced that it has received authorization for the delivery of coronavirus vacc...

October 13, 2020 | Tuesday | News
SII to produce 200 million COVID-19 vaccines doses for India and LMICs in 2021

A further collaboration among the Serum Institute of India (SII), the world’s largest vaccine manufacturer by volu...

October 9, 2020 | Friday | News
EU secures 400 million doses of Janssen’s COVID-19 Vaccine Candidate

  Johnson & Johnson on 8 Oct 2020 announced that the European Commission (EC), acting on behalf of the Europea...

October 9, 2020 | Friday | News
CEPI establishes global centralized COVID-19 vaccine candidates assessment network

The Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) in Norway has announced partnerships with five clinical sampl...

October 8, 2020 | Thursday | News
Australia invests $2.3 B on native COVID-19 vaccine

The Australian Government is investing a total of $2.3 billion to support home-grown researchers and manufacturers to de...

October 8, 2020 | Thursday | News
RDIF, Trinity Pharma to supply 25M doses of Sputnik V to Nepal

The Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF), Russia’s sovereign wealth fund, and one of the leading pharmaceutical d...

September 29, 2020 | Tuesday | News
COVAXX initiates Ph 1 trial of COVID-19 vaccine in Taiwan

COVAXX, a subsidiary of United Biomedical Inc (UBI) headquartered in the US, has announced the first healthy a...

September 29, 2020 | Tuesday | News
J&J initiates global Ph 3 trial of COVID-19 vaccine candidate

Johnson & Johnson has announced the launch of its large-scale, pivotal, multi-country Phase 3 trial (ENSEMBLE) for i...

September 24, 2020 | Thursday | News
Australia now eligible to purchase COVID-19 vaccine doses through COVAX

The Australian Government has joined the COVAX facility, enabling the purchase of COVID-19 vaccine doses as they become ...

September 23, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Singapore focuses on COVID-19 vaccine technology for elders

Researchers from Monash University in Australia and the National University of Singapore have adapted new cancer and pan...

September 22, 2020 | Tuesday | News
Australia invests $6M in new COVID-19 vaccine projects

Australia will invest almost $6 million in additional funding from the Medical Research Future Fund’s (MRFF) Coron...

September 21, 2020 | Monday | News