AstraZeneca said that clinical trials for the AZD1222 Covid-19 vaccine candidate, have resumed in various parts of the world after regulators across the US, UK, Brazil, Japan, and South Africa confirmed that it was safe to continue them. The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has authorized the restart of AZD1222 clinical trials in the […]
Remdesivir FDA approval : Gilead Sciences, a California-based biopharma company, has bagged approval from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its antiviral drug Veklury (remdesivir) for Covid-19 treatment in patients requiring hospitalization. This makes remdesivir the first approved treatment for coronavirus in the US. Remdesivir FDA approved indication : Veklury has been approved […]
COVID-19 treatment : The Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences has entered into a collaboration with Canadian biotech company Cyclica for discovering antiviral drug candidates for COVID-19 (novel coronavirus) and for exploring opportunities for designing multi-targeted antiviral compounds. According to the partners, new drug development efforts to tackle the prevailing pandemic of […]
Novel coronavirus diagnostic test : Co-Diagnostics, a US molecular diagnostics company, said that its research use only (RUO) CoPrimer test for the 2019-nCoV coronavirus is ready for sale to laboratories, hospitals, and institutions. To know about coronavirus symptoms in humans, check here. The molecular diagnostics company claims to have taken two weeks for the design, […]
IDbyDNA claims that its Explify Respiratory test can detect Wuhan Coronavirus apart from more than 900 viral, bacterial, fungal, and parasitic pathogens. According to the California-based metagenomics technology company, the Explify Respiratory test is a validated laboratory-developed test for respiratory pathogens like human coronaviruses. The Wuhan Coronavirus detection test is currently available at the IDbyDNA […]
AirPHX said that an independent testing lab has confirmed that its non-thermal plasma technology is highly effective in protecting people from potential exposure to the Wuhan coronavirus or novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV). The technology from airPHX can be scaled for the treatment of air and surfaces in large facilities like hospitals, hotels, airports, schools, and other […]
Wuhan Coronavirus cases in US : The deadly Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV infection) has made its way to the US owing to the return of a traveler from China, as confirmed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The first Novel Coronavirus case in US has been reported from Washington State after a patient […]