The virus, unearthed at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, ... The bat virus, referred to as HKU5-CoV-2, uses the same human receptor as SARS-CoV-2, a strain of the coronavirus that causes COVID-19. 4.

Also Read: Covid-19-like bat virus discovered in Wuhan lab, poses risk of animal-to-human transmission Scientists stated in the journal Cell, as cited by news ageny Reuters, that the virus, known ...

Earlier this month the now famous Wuhan Institute of Virology said they had found a new virus in bats with striking similarities to Covid that could have the potential to infect humans.

Scientists at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China have discovered a new lineage of a coronavirus in bats that can enter human cells in a similar fashion as SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes ...

The origins of COVID-19 remain a mystery as WHO says “Cannot rule out any theory” after an inconclusive study. Many theories about the origins of COVID-19 have been debated extensively since the ...

Hayes also addressed concerns that the virus might be similar to another known bat virus known as RaTG13, found by Wuhan researchers. The genomes are 96% identical to one another, but they’re ...

China’s Yunnan. Two of them are genetically similar to lethal Nipah and Hendra, raising fears of spillover via contaminated fruits or water.