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