Live Webinar: Staying Ahead of Viral Variants: Surveillance Solutions for SARS-CoV-2

COVID19 |  News | 0 Comment | 11 Apr, 2022

Click here to register now   Event Details Date: Friday, 29 April 2022 Time: 10:00 AM (GMT+8; Singapore and Tai...Read more

Hong Kong discovers distinct gut microbial signatures for 'long COVID'

COVID19 |  News | 0 Comment | 11 Apr, 2022

Clinical researchers from The Chinese University of Hong Kong's (CUHK) Faculty of Medicine (CU Medicine) have identified...Read more

Thailand gives Emergency Use Authorisation for Novavax' COVID-19 vaccine

COVID19 |  News | 1 Comment | 08 Apr, 2022

US-based Novavax, Inc. and Serum Institute of India have announced that the Thailand Food and Drug Administration (Thai ...Read more

Medriva announces availability of new COVID-19 Rapid Antigen Test kits in Australia

COVID19 |  News | 0 Comment | 08 Apr, 2022

Medriva, a leading global manufacturer of COVID-19 testing and vaccination products, has announced the Australian a...Read more

ResApp announces positive results for new novel smartphone-based COVID-19 screening test

COVID19 |  News | 0 Comment | 28 Mar, 2022

ResApp Health, a leading digital health company developing smartphone applications for the diagnosis and management of r...Read more

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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