Japan observes cross protection from COVID-19 by JEV

A significant discrepancy in mortality among even geographically close regions could be explained by a cross protection ...

April 30, 2020 | Thursday | News
HKBU unveils COVID-19 transmission patterns

New research led by Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU) computer scientists has used a data-driven modelling a...

April 29, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Seasun Biomaterials set to launch COVID-19 rapid kit

South Korea based SEASUN BIOMATERIALS has announced that they are about to release their second COVID-19 assay "AQ-TOP C...

April 29, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Vela Diagnostics Receives BARDA Funding to Develop COVID-19 Tests

Vela Diagnostics has been awarded a $225,000 contract by the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BAR...

April 29, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Vela Diagnostics receives CE mark for COVID-19 test

Singapore headquartered Vela Diagnostics announced that the manual version of the ViroKey™ SARS-CoV-2 RT-PCR Test ...

April 30, 2020 | Thursday | News
Singapore develops comprehensive medical strategy for COVID-19

The Multi-Ministry Taskforce in Singapore has a comprehensive medical strategy to ensure that individuals infected with ...

April 29, 2020 | Wednesday | News
NanoPass joins pharma partners for COVID-19 vaccine development

Novel Coronavirus presents a global pandemic with unprecedented medical, economic and social scales. Since there is curr...

April 27, 2020 | Monday | News
COVID-19 : Testing coverage

Countries are reporting testing data in different ways: some report the number of tests, others report the number of peo...

April 27, 2020 | Monday | News
Australia boosts COVID-19 response with additional $3M

The Australian Government will provide a further $3 million to support frontline health workers with training and inform...

April 28, 2020 | Tuesday | News
MiRXES to distribute A*STAR's SARS-CoV-2 RT-PCR test

MiRXES, a homegrown Singapore-based biotech, has received Provisional Authorisation from the Health Sciences Author...

April 28, 2020 | Tuesday | News
Terumo donates $2.4 M for COVID-19 fight

As the world joins together to support healthcare workers and others on the front lines providing critical care to patie...

April 28, 2020 | Tuesday | News
Singapore designs AI platform to combat infectious diseases

As the COVID-19 crisis continues to develop, researchers around the world are attempting to find the most effective trea...

April 27, 2020 | Monday | News
Scientists identify key nasal cells believed to attract Coronavirus

Two specific nose cell types have been identified as likely initial infection points for COVID-19 coronavirus. Scientist...

April 24, 2020 | Friday | News
CanSino Bio enrols for Ph 2 trial of COVID-19 vaccine

China’s CanSino Biologics advancing its SARS-CoV-2 vaccine to a Phase II clinical trial making this vaccine c...

April 27, 2020 | Monday | News
MIT works towards reducing lung damage in COVID-19 patients

One of the defining features of Covid-19 is the excessive immune response that can occur in severe cases. This burst of ...

April 28, 2020 | Tuesday | News
Senhwa Biosciences, NIH to co-develop COVID-19 drug

Taiwan headquartered Senhwa Biosciences Inc announced that it has partnered with the US National Institutes of Health (N...

April 27, 2020 | Monday | News
Taiwan scales up efforts to combat pandemic

Taiwan Textile Federation (TTF), by integrating upstream, midstream, and downstream textile industries and with the help...

April 24, 2020 | Friday | News
DHL Global ships 1.3 M COVID-19 test kits from South Korea

DHL Global Forwarding South Korea has air freighted more than 1.3 million COVID-19 test kits in the first three weeks of...

April 24, 2020 | Friday | News
ITU, WHO collaborate with IT sector to defeat COVID-19

The World Health Organization (WHO), the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) with support from UNICEF are set to...

April 24, 2020 | Friday | News
NEC designs blueprints for COVID-19 vaccines using AI

Japan based NEC Corporation has announced analysis results from efforts using AI prediction platforms to design blueprin...

April 24, 2020 | Friday | News
dnature secures funding to develop COVID-19 test

The Health Research Council in New Zealand has announced that dnature diagnostics & research company is the recipien...

April 23, 2020 | Thursday | News
Singapore develops guide for COVID-19 remote consultation

Primary care health workers now have a guide for conducting remote consultation of suspected COVID-19 patients, develope...

April 23, 2020 | Thursday | News
Seegene receives FDA EUA for Allplex 2019-nCoV assay

South Korean firm Seegene, Inc. has announced that U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted Emergency Use Authori...

April 23, 2020 | Thursday | News
KidneyIntelX to assess risk of adverse kidney events in COVID-19 patients

Following the announcement that Renalytix AI’s KidneyIntelX™ platform will be used to assess the risk o...

April 22, 2020 | Wednesday | Analysis
3,000 Global Healthcare Workers Join Alibaba Online to explore COVID-19

Amid the global spread of COVID-19, it has become more important for medical personnel with firsthand experience treatin...

April 22, 2020 | Wednesday | News