A new coronavirus feared to be able to spread to humans has been discovered by a China-linked scientist ... after swabbing the mouths and rectums of bats. The novel strain is closely related ...

The novel virus represents a distinct lineage of the HKU5 coronavirus, originally identified in the Japanese Pipistrelle bat in Hong Kong ... The two-year investigation claimed that the Chinese ...

The discovery of a new bat coronavirus in China has sparked concerns about another pandemic. The virus, named HKU5-CoV-2, is similar to SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, in that it ...

the South China Morning Post highlighted the lead contact for the study, Zheng-Li Shi, was a leading virologist known as “batwoman” due to her extensive research on bat coronaviruses ...

The study, which was done by scientists at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China, details a newly-detected type of coronavirus in bats that can get into human cells in the same way as SARS-CoV ...