Singapore

JN Medsys has obtained approval for their PCR Kit from the FDA of the Philippines, and is in the process of obtaining approval from the US FDA.

For individuals in Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam, the COVID-19 Medical Advisory Clinic is a full suite service.

The medtech company has obtained provisional authorization from Singapore’s HSA for its rapid test kit to be used in Singapore. 

The funds will be used for the telehealth startup’s expansion in the APAC region with the support of local and regional partners.

The collection kit comes with a bottle of stabilization fluid to be mixed with the sample at the point of collection, keeping viral RNA stable at room temperature for up to one week.

TraceTogether works by exchanging short-distance Bluetooth signals between phones to detect other participating TraceTogether users in close proximity.  

AIA Singapore, which is part of the largest public listed pan-Asian life insurance group, announced that will cover the costs of 50,000 video medical consultations provided by WhiteCoat, a Singapore-based tele-medicine provider for all its HealthShield Gold Max policyholders.

The new approach avoids malformations that are common in conventional methods, which produce particles that are ovoid in shape and result in poor flowability during manufacturing of medicines.

With the authorization by HSA, the VereCoV Detection Kit can be used directly by laboratories or hospitals to test patients for clinical diagnosis as an in-vitro diagnostic product (IVD).

iThermo reduces the need for manual temperature screening, and provides prompts where secondary checks can be carried out for feverish persons identified by the solution.