Infectious Disease Control

PAP Community Foundation named #1 Best Workplace in Asia

SINGAPORE, July 20, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- PAP Community Foundation (PCF) has clinched first place inAsia's Best Workplaces™ 2021 in the category of 'Large' workplaces, ranked by Great Place to Work®. It is the only organisati...

2021-07-20 12:00 2969

Within weeks of first COVID-19 outbreak, China's Qingdao Weida Biotechnology had switched all production capability over to PPE

QINGDAO, China, July 19, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- On July 16, 2021, organized by the Information Office of the People's Government of Shandong Province, a delegation of journalists from foreign media organizations who were participating in the 2021 Qingdao Multinationals Summit (QMS) paid a visit to ...

2021-07-20 07:15 1583

Team Bahrain Victorious Partners with iXensor to Deploy COVID-19 Antigen Testing for the Reopened Cycling Races

PARIS, July 20, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- iXensor (6734.TWO), the pioneer of mobile health, announces today its sponsorship of the Team Bahrain Victorious. iXensor provides the fully digitalized COVID-19 rapid testing solution consisting of thePixoTest COVID-19 antigen test ...

2021-07-20 00:39 2262

Frontier Biotechnologies' First Long-acting Injectable (Aikening(R)), in a Two Drug Regimen for HIV, Proves Safe and Efficacious for Patients

* The TALENT study (TALENT) findings, which were presented at the 11th International AIDS Society (IAS) Conference on HIV Science, showed that a two-drug regimen was as effective and safe as multi-drug therapies * TALENT is the world's first phase III clinical trial of the new long-acting HIV...

2021-07-19 16:23 3506

GoTo Group and partners create Indonesia's first dedicated oxygen facility for COVID-19 patients

* "Gotong Royong Oxygen House" to be set up in collaboration with KADIN Indonesia and Samator Group * Oxygen to be piped direct from Samator Group's oxygen production facility, ensuring a reliable and uninterrupted supply * Initiative set to relieve pressure on Jakarta hospitals as the COVID...

2021-07-19 15:16 1982

Kintor Pharmaceutical Receives Emergency Use Authorization for Proxalutamide for the Treatment of COVID-19 in Paraguay

SUZHOU, China, July 16, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Kintor Pharmaceutical Limited (HKEX:9939), a clinical-stage biotechnology company developing innovative small molecule and biological therapeutics, today announced thatParaguay's Ministry of Public Health and Social Welfare (MSPBS) has granted an emerg...

2021-07-16 14:41 36945

Cigna International finds community spirit and duty to society top driver of COVID-19 vaccine uptake

Key research findings: * Vaccine acceptance continues to improve – steady increase in vaccine acceptance, 69% up from 63% in three months * Urgency has increased – those waiting to get a vaccination until more people have had their first one dropped 8% in three months, from 50% to 42% * Vac...

2021-07-15 15:30 46086

Kintor Pharmaceutical Collaborates with Fosun Pharma Development to Commercialise Proxalutamide for Treatment of COVID-19 in India and Africa

SUZHOU, China, July 14, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Kintor Pharmaceutical Limited (HKEX:9939) today announced that it has entered into a licensing agreement with Shanghai Fosun Pharmaceutical Development Ltd. ("Fosun Pharma Development"), on the commercialisation of proxalutamide for the treatment of CO...

2021-07-15 10:00 34482

Seegene Introduces New SARS-CoV-2 Variants Detection Test That Can Screen Six Virus Variants Including the Delta and Delta Plus

* Seegene launches new multiplex PCR test capable of screening six SARS-CoV-2 variants including the Delta and Delta Plus variants attributable for a recent surge in global COVID-19 cases. * The new CE-IVD marked variants detection kit to differentiate 10 major COVID-19 variants including the...

2021-07-13 20:00 2147

Wearing A Mask Still Matters: The World Rallies to Continue Masking to Stop the Spread of COVID-19

World Mask Week (July 12-18) is a global movement to encourage continued mask-wearing to reach the end of the COVID-19 pandemic SEATTLE, July 12, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Pandemic Action Network, the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC), the African Union,3M and over 50 glo...

2021-07-12 19:00 1748

P&G pledges an additional S$3.1 million worth of Care Packs to the Migrant Workers Centre in Singapore amid the COVID-19 pandemic

SINGAPORE, July 12, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Procter & Gamble (NYSE:PG), has once again partnered with Migrant Workers' Centre (MWC) to provide an additional 300,000 care packs totallingS$3.1million, in support for migrant workers in Singapore as part of ongoing COVID-19 relief efforts. The care pack...

2021-07-12 14:19 17733

LEAD Horizon: How Vienna gargles out of lockdown

VIENNA, July 12, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- With the initiative "everything gargles" Vienna got through the pandemic better in comparison to other European cities. Every day, up to 70.000 people participate in the simple gargle PCR testing to inquire their Covid-19 status. Following the example ofVienn...

2021-07-12 08:30 2755

BRI Deploys Teras BRI Ships to Provide Vaccination in the Maluku Islands

MANADO, Indonesia, July 10, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- PT Bank Rakyat Indonesia (Persero) Tbk (IDX:BBRI) is committed to supporting the success of the COVID-19 vaccination program that is being carried out by the Government as an effort to overcome the pandemic. Through the BRI Manado Regional Office, ...

2021-07-10 10:02 19088

Ortho Clinical Diagnostics' Quantitative COVID-19 IgG Antibody Test First to Receive FDA Emergency Use Authorization

- Ortho's new VITROS® Anti-SARS-CoV-2 IgG Quantitative Test targets the S1 spike protein and is calibrated to the WHO International Standard for anti-SARS-CoV-2 IgG antibodies, which gives clinicians and public health leaders a standard tool to measure antibody response to SARS-CoV-2 - Ortho is ...

2021-07-10 03:33 30212

COVID pandemic heightens a lack of confidence amongst the public about which medicines to take and how to use them

New campaign, Let's treat it right, launches as online searches for self-care surge globally[1], as people take more responsibility for  their everyday health.  NYON, Switzerland, July 8, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Today sees the launch of Let's treat it right, a major new health education campaign d...

2021-07-08 16:00 1890

King Power Group Launches King Power Phuket Sandbox : Shop Eat Play Stay Safe In supporting TAT's PHUKET SANDBOX Campaign

PHUKET, Thailand, July 8, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- King Power Group has launched King Power Phuket Sandbox Shop Eat Play Stay Safe to welcome back fully vaccinated international tourists without quarantine requirements to the resort island in support of Tourism Authority ofThailand's PHUKET SANDBOX c...

2021-07-08 15:26 2121

Just 5 minutes: Game-changing PCR to complete nucleic acid amplification, Si-Gene Biotech help out against COVID 19

SHANGHAI, July 8, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- As is known, nucleic acid detection is currently the "golden standard" of coronavirus detection and has the high sensitivity and specificity characteristics in early diagnosis. The most common method for detecting novel coronavirus-specific nucleic acid sequ...

2021-07-08 11:28 2398

Triple Stimulus Voucher Mobile Payments Yield Astonishing Results--Kaohsiung New Yan Cheng Circle Revenues Double in 2nd Half of 2020

TAIPEI, July 7, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- To respond to Taiwan's epidemic prevention measures and ease the challenges facing the shopping district due to the spread of COVID-19, Kaohsiung's New Yan Cheng Circle Prosperity Union introduced Triple Stimulus Voucher mobile payments in stores inJuly 2020, ...

2021-07-07 09:00 1950

Immunogenicity Expert and FDA Alum Dr. Amy Rosenberg Joins EpiVax

PROVIDENCE, R.I., July 7, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- EpiVax, Inc. ("EpiVax") is pleased to announce that Dr.Amy Rosenberg is leaving the FDA's Division of Therapeutic Proteins, CDER, which she led for over 20 years, to join EpiVax as Senior Director of Immunology and Protein Therapeutics. Dr. Rosenber...

2021-07-07 01:43 2795

Tianjin Haihe Media Group presents an extraordinary story of a TCM doctor and his battle against COVID-19 in China

TIANJIN, China, July 3, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Zhang Boli, director of the Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine inChina, was awarded with the national honorary title "the People's Hero" by the Chinese central government for his outstanding contribution to the country's fight against t...

2021-07-05 09:14 4712
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