Taiwan initiates new measures for management of medical masks

Taiwan has recently initiated two new measures to reinforce the management of medical masks. Since July 7th, 2020, the...

November 25, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Sputnik V vaccine single dose to be less than $10 at international markets

The cost of one dose of the Sputnik V vaccine for international markets will be less than $10. Sputnik V is a ...

November 25, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Koru Lifescience identifies drug compounds beneficial for COVID-19 trials

New Zealand's Koru Lifescience, drug discovery, and advanced formulation research laboratory in Auckland, has ident...

November 24, 2020 | Tuesday | News
Australia emphasizes on sustained COVID-19 immunity for vaccine effectiveness

Researchers of Monash University, Australia have recently revealed for the first time that people who have been infected...

November 24, 2020 | Tuesday | News
Pfizer, BioNTech demonstrate 95% efficacy of COVID-19 vaccine

Pfizer Inc. and BioNTech have announced that, after conducting the final efficacy analysis in their ongoing Ph...

November 23, 2020 | Monday | News
Samsung Biologics partners with Lilly to accelerate delivery of COVID-19 Ab treatments

South Korea based Samsung Biologics' partnership with Eli Lilly and Company is expected to greatly accelerate the global...

November 18, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Contract for innovative delivery system for COVID-19 vaccine

Croda International Plc (“Croda” or “the Group”), the speciality chemical company that uses smar...

November 16, 2020 | Monday | News
Singapore's EUA certified cPass(TM) SARS-CoV-2 Neutralization Ab kit detects Abs in 1hr

GenScript Biotech Corporation's cPass™ SARS-CoV-2 Neutralization Antibody Detection Kit has receive...

November 13, 2020 | Friday | News
South Korea to host production of 150M Sputnik V doses for global distribution

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

November 13, 2020 | Friday | News
QIAGEN launches portable digital SARS-CoV-2 Ag test

QIAGEN has recently started commercialization of a portable digital test in the United States that can be used by labora...

November 12, 2020 | Thursday | News
Arcturus Therapeutics receives $220M from Singapore for COVID-19 vaccine development

Arcturus Therapeutics Holdings Inc., based in the US, has announced positive interim clinical study results from its ong...

November 12, 2020 | Thursday | News
FDA grants EUA to Singapore's SARS-CoV-2 neutralisation Ab detection kit

GenScript USA Inc, the world's leading research reagent provider, has announced that the US Food and Drug Admi...

November 10, 2020 | Tuesday | News
Australia evaluates hyperimmune immunoglobulin treatment for COVID-19

Researchers from the Kirby Institute at UNSW Sydney, Australia together with colleagues in the United States and Europ...

November 9, 2020 | Monday | News
Celltrion's anti-COVID-19 monoclonal antibody treatment candidate looks promising

Korea's Celltrion Group on 5 Nov 2020 announced results from the ongoing Phase I clinical trial of CT-P59, an anti-COVID...

November 9, 2020 | Monday | News
COVID-19 Vaccine Tracker | BioSpectrum Asia

Information will be updated weekly. If you notice an issue with this data or wish to submit an update, please email BioS...

November 6, 2020 | Friday | Analysis
"Post COVID-19, healthcare systems should look to implement a knowledge-driven care model"

In early August, India announced the National Digital Health Mission (NDHM), which indicated their commitment to rapidly...

November 5, 2020 | Thursday | Opinion
Daddybaby’s protective masks contribute to prevention of global pandemic

Recently, protective masks by China-based Daddybaby were certified by the British Standards Institution (BSI) and also p...

November 5, 2020 | Thursday | News
Australia secures further 50M doses of COVID-19 vaccine

Two more COVID-19 vaccines have been secured for the Australian population under new agreements, bringing the Australian...

November 5, 2020 | Thursday | News
SenseCare-Lung Pro enables faster-automated diagnosis of lung diseases

SenseTime, the world-leading artificial intelligence (AI) company, on 4 Nov 2020 announced its AI-empowered software sol...

November 4, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Japan researchers uncover COVID-19’s impact on the energy transition

Exploring the unique set of scenarios put into motion by the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers from Japan's Kyushu Universi...

November 4, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Singapore unveils automated blood oxygen monitoring system to beat COVID-19

Automating the collection and presentation of healthcare data is crucial in the fight against COVID-19 – it ...

November 5, 2020 | Thursday | News
Taiwan, Australia, Japan & US stage GCTF virtual workshop on combating COVID-19 related crimes

A virtual workshop on combating illegal activity related to COVID-19 was held by Taiwan, Australia, Japan and the U.S....

November 4, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Humanigen extends to APAC market with COVID-19 drug

US based Humanigen, Inc., a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company focused on preventing and treating an immune hyper-...

November 5, 2020 | Thursday | News
Thermo King launches cold storage solutions for COVID-19 vaccine distribution

Thermo King, by Trane Technologies, a global climate innovator based in the US, has recently expanded its portfolio of t...

November 2, 2020 | Monday | News
Merck partners with Mammoth Bio to develop new SARS-CoV-2 test

Merck has recently announced a collaboration with Mammoth Biosciences Inc. of South San Francisco, California, USA, for ...

October 30, 2020 | Friday | 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
Genbody to supply high accuracy antigen test kits in India

South Korea-based global diagnostic firm Genbody Inc has recently received approval from ICMR (Indian Council of Medical...

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
PerkinElmer receives CE mark for multi-analyte respiratory panel including COVID-19

PerkinElmer, Inc. has announced that its PKamp™ Respiratory SARS-CoV-2 RT-PCR Panel has received cl...

October 27, 2020 | Tuesday | News
Emirates to set up world’s largest air cargo hub for distribution of COVID-19 vaccine

Emirates SkyCargo is stepping up its readiness to handle the logistical complexities of distributing a potential COVID-1...

October 26, 2020 | Monday | News
Carelink partners with Fujifilm to deploy COVID-19 drug in China

FUJIFILM Toyama Chemical, based in Japan, has partnered with Chinese pharmaceutical company Carelink Pharmaceutical in d...

October 23, 2020 | Friday | News
Singapore brings 60-sec breath test to detect COVID-19

Breathonix, a spin-off company from the National University of Singapore (NUS), has developed an easy-to-use breath test...

October 22, 2020 | Thursday | News
Australia invests $13.6M to support mental health of new and expectant parents

The Australian Government is supporting expectant and new parents providing $13.6 million through its $43...

October 23, 2020 | Friday | News
Chinese startup launches in-home COVID-19 testing

China's local start-up Evercare is proactively rolling out an internationally-accepted, 99.9% accurate COVID-19 tes...

October 22, 2020 | Thursday | News
PerkinElmer's immunoassay disrupts SARS-CoV-2 spike protein/ACE2 interaction

PerkinElmer, Inc. has announced that a research team at the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences&nb...

October 22, 2020 | Thursday | 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
Samsung Biologics partners with Dinona for potential COVID-19 treatment

Samsung Biologics has entered into a partnership agreement with biotech Dinona, further expanding its CDO capabilities t...

October 21, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Mediven's COVID-19 PCR test obtains 100% result in international study

Malaysia's Medical Innovation Ventures (Mediven®) achieved 100% concordance for GenoAmp®, its COVID-19 PCR test ...

October 20, 2020 | Tuesday | 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
Chinese firm unveils revolutionary solution for patient isolation

JUD care, a leading high-tech enterprise in the field of smart medical and healthcare solutions in China, has kicked off...

October 19, 2020 | Monday | News
India curbs Remdesivir price to make COVID-19 treatment more affordable

The Indian state, Maharashtra has become the first to fix the price of remdesivir at INR2,360 (US$32.17), which is 16% m...

October 16, 2020 | Friday | News
Roche SARS-CoV-2 antigen test to support high-volume testing of COVID-19 suspects

Roche announced on 13 Oct 2020 that it intends to launch a high-volume SARS-CoV-2 Antigen test as an aid in th...

October 14, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Scientific advisory board in Europe to address dysfunctional endothelium in COVID-19

After encouraging results obtained under named patient use in severe cases of COVID-19,  F4 Pharma is now prep...

October 14, 2020 | Wednesday | News
IQVIA joins FDA to advance COVID-19 understanding through CARE project

US-based IQVIA in scientific partnership with the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), will provide agile analytics fr...

October 13, 2020 | Tuesday | 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
Honeywell emphasises on improving occupants health in Malaysia

Honeywell has recently launched an integrated set of solutions in Malaysia to help building owners improve the...

October 13, 2020 | Tuesday | News
Lilly reports reduced recovery time in critically ill COVID-19 patients with Baricitinib

US based Eli Lilly and Company and Incyte shared additional data showing baricitinib in combination with remdesivir...

October 12, 2020 | Monday | News
Korea develops method to detect COVID-19 RNAs in 30 min

A joint Korean research team comprised of Professor Jeong Wook Lee and Ph.D. candidate Chang Ha Woo and Professor Gyoo Y...

October 12, 2020 | Monday | 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
WHO calls for stronger collective efforts to curtail COVID-19

With the increase in COVID-19 cases in most countries of WHO South-East Asia Region, World Health Organization has calle...

October 8, 2020 | Thursday | 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
GENE Life to leverage anti-pandemic supplies and COVID-19 kits in China

Amuse Group Holding Limited and Grand View Bio Tech announced the establishment of their joint venture GENE Life Company...

October 7, 2020 | Wednesday | News
New Zealand’s Ubiquitome signs NIH RADx contract for COVID-19 tests

New Zealand-based Ubiquitome is ramping up production of its mobile, real-time (RT) PCR technology with fundin...

October 7, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Singapore’s younger healthcare professionals resilient despite COVID-19

Royal Philips, a global leader in health technology, has announced findings from its study of 15 countries, the Future H...

October 6, 2020 | Tuesday | News
Eisai to involve jointly in COVID-19 drug discovery utilizing Eritoran and E6011

Japan's Eisai has entered into a joint research agreement with four research organizations (KAN Research Institute, Nati...

October 7, 2020 | Wednesday | News
TaiGen filed US IND for its influenza antiviral TG-1000

TaiGen Biotechnology Company, Limited ("TaiGen") announced on 5 Oct 2020 that it has filed an Investigational New Drug (...

October 5, 2020 | Monday | News
Malaysia unveils world's first fully quantitative COVID-19 test

The Malaysia Automotive, Robotics and IoT Institute (MARii) and Sengenics Sdn. Bhd. have launched the ImmuSAFE COVID+ bi...

October 1, 2020 | Thursday | News
Singapore discovers blood markers to predict COVID-19 severity or risk

Researchers from A*STAR’s Singapore Immunology Network (SIgN), together with international collaborators have disc...

October 2, 2020 | Friday | News
GVN's virus experts to identify promising advanced strategies to battle COVID-19

The Global Virus Network (GVN), a coalition of the world's leading medical and basic virology research centers working t...

October 1, 2020 | Thursday | News
Australia invents app for analysing coronavirus genome

A new mobile app has made it possible to analyse the genome of the SARS-CoV-2 virus on a smartphone in less than half an...

September 30, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Sharp Corp develops air purifying device to fight COVID-19

A device, developed by Japan headquartered Sharp Corporation, equipped with Plasmacluster technology, which exposed an a...

September 30, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Singapore’s EDDC to discover new AI-driven COVID-19 therapies

Auransa, Inc., an artificial intelligence (AI)-driven pharmaceutical company, on 29 Sep 2020 announced a resea...

September 30, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Japan gathers genetic information for predicting COVID-19 severity

Japanese researchers have launched the Joint Research Coronavirus Task Force to gather genetic information for predictin...

September 30, 2020 | Wednesday | 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
Australia announces first strategic action plan for blood cancers

As part of the 2020/21 Budget, the Australian government will provide more than $600,000 to the Leukaemia Foundation as ...

September 28, 2020 | Monday | News
Solvay introduces long-lasting antimicrobial cleaning technology

Belgium-based Solvay has recently introduced Actizone™, a line of ready-to-use products and ingredients that provi...

September 25, 2020 | Friday | News
OMRON develops ventilators with VENINDO to assist in COVID-19 recovery

Due to the continuously evolving COVID-19 situation in Indonesia, hospitals and medical centres are facing increased bed...

September 25, 2020 | Friday | 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
Celltrion initiates Ph II/III trial of anti-COVID-19 mAb treatment candidate

Celltrion Group has announced that the Korean Ministry of Food and Drug Safety (MFDS) has approved the company’s I...

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
JHL teams up with Adimmune for COVID-19 vaccine production

JHL Biotech, Inc. has announced a signing of a Master Service Agreement (“MSA”) with Adimmune Corporati...

September 18, 2020 | Friday | News
APAC to build resilient health system with UHC

Ministers of Health and Finance from Asia Pacific countries, including from the WHO South-East Asia Region have recently...

September 17, 2020 | Thursday | News
Novavax & Serum Institute of India to manufacture COVID-19 Vaccine

Novavax, Inc., a late-stage biotechnology company developing next-generation vaccines for serious infectious diseases,&n...

September 16, 2020 | Wednesday | News
PharmaJet collaborates with Korea for COVID-19 vaccine delivery

PharmaJet®, the maker of innovative, needle-free injection technology based in the US, has announced that its Strati...

September 16, 2020 | Wednesday | News
eGeneration partners with Bangladesh govt to tackle pandemic

The COVID-19 pandemic has shaken the whole world and Bangladesh is no different. The country has observed th...

September 16, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Taiwan & US to develop coronavirus, influenza combo patch vaccine

Vaxess Technologies, an innovative biotechnology company in the US developing the MIMIX smart release patch, has formed ...

September 15, 2020 | Tuesday | News
Genomic leaders to create Australia’s first national COVID-19 tracking system

Illumina has recently announced that the Australian public health laboratories will aim to sequence the virus genomes of...

September 16, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Taiwan reports first COVID-19 patient recovery with eIND Silmitasertib treatment

Taiwan's Senhwa Biosciences, Inc., a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on next-generation DNA Damage Re...

September 14, 2020 | Monday | News
Australia launches new COVID-19 mental health clinics

The Australian government has announced that Victoria province now will have access to additional mental health support ...

September 15, 2020 | Tuesday | News
Ascend expands antimicrobial Acteev™ technology to combat COVID-19

US-based Ascend Performance Materials, a manufacturer of technology-forward textiles and engineered materials, has come ...

September 11, 2020 | Friday | News
Australia inks $3.7 M deal for nasal swab kits

The Australian Government has signed a $3.7 million contract with a Melbourne company to supply sterile nasal swab kits ...

September 11, 2020 | Friday | News
WHO South-East Asia region signs declaration to fight COVID-19

To fight against COVID-19 with better-equipped health systems & deliver essential health services, all member countr...

September 10, 2020 | Thursday | News
Inovio partners with Thermo Fisher to manufacture COVID-19 vaccine

INOVIO, a biotechnology company focused on bringing to market precisely designed DNA medicines to treat and protect peop...

September 10, 2020 | Thursday | News
Seegene introduces high-throughput 8-plex test for COVID-19

Seegene, Inc. has introduced a single tube real-time RT-PCR assay, Allplex™ SARS-CoV-2/FluA/FluB/RSV Assay, which ...

September 10, 2020 | Thursday | News
Pure Health, Apollo Diagnostics to administer COVID-19 tests for UAE travellers

One of the greatest concerns during the COVID-19 pandemic is the prevention of transmission risk among international tra...

September 9, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Australia inks $1.7B worth agreement for COVID-19 vaccine

A free COVID-19 vaccine will be available progressively throughout 2021 in Australia, if promising trials prove successf...

September 8, 2020 | Tuesday | News
Australia deals with AstraZeneca for AZD1222 COVID-19 investigational vaccine

AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine candidate, AZD1222, as a potential candidate for an emergency use authorization (EU...

September 7, 2020 | Monday | News
Seoul Viosys begins mass production of coronavirus sterilizers

Seoul Viosys, a leading compound semiconductor solution provider in South Korea, announced that it has developed an opti...

September 7, 2020 | Monday | News
Otis commissions study on elevator airflow amid COVID-19

US-based Otis Worldwide Corporation (OTIS), world's leading company for elevator and escalator manufacturing, has c...

September 7, 2020 | Monday | News
Yiling Pharma receives first international approval for herbal COVID-19 medicine

  China-based Yiling Pharmaceutical recently issued a notice that it had received a certificate of drug registrati...

September 7, 2020 | Monday | News
Korean CRO to conduct Ph III trial of Sinovac's Covid-19 vaccine candidate in Bangladesh

Korea's LSK Global PS, a leading CRO to run Sinovac Phase III COVID-19 vaccine trial in Bangladesh. The company would m...

September 4, 2020 | Friday | News
ATrack establishes new brand to kill coronavirus

ATrack Technology Inc., an Internet of Vehicles (IoV) company based in Taiwan, has established the new brand UVengers&nb...

September 4, 2020 | Friday | News
ADB provides $125M to help boost Philippines' COVID-19 health response

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has recently approved a $125 million loan to help the Philippine government improve its...

September 3, 2020 | Thursday | News
Hong Kong launches COVID-19 alert system

Researchers from Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU) have developed a COVID-19 alert system which will send a ...

September 1, 2020 | Tuesday | News
Survey reveals key challenges arising from new COVID-19 screening processes

The US healthcare delivery system has received never seen before shocks over the past four months. Including, COVID-19 s...

September 1, 2020 | Tuesday | News

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