A Chinese research team has discovered a new bat coronavirus which uses the same receptor as Covid-19 to infect humans. The ...

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

Shares of Asian diagnostic kit makers and vaccine producers rallied on Monday, following global peers higher after ...

Chinese scientists, led by Shi Zhengli, have discovered a novel coronavirus, HKU5-CoV-2, that can infect humans and other ...

So far, there are no cases where HKU5-CoV-2 infection has been passed from bats to humans. Experts say despite the virus’ ...

Scientists at China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology recently reported the discovery of another bat-borne coronavirus, HKU5-CoV-2, which is capable of entering cells using human ACE2 — the same receptor ...

HKU5-CoV-2, belongs to the merbecovirus subgenus, which includes the Mers virus. This newly isolated strain can bind to the ...

A Chinese team of virologists have found a new bat coronavirus that carries the risk of animal-to-human transmission because it uses the same human receptor as the virus that causes Covid-19, a media ...

Thailand's government has moved to calm public concerns after the discovery of HKU5-CoV-2, a new coronavirus variant found in ...

The Thai government reassures the public that the newly discovered HKU5-CoV-2 virus has not been transmitted to humans. Authorities emphasise Thailand’s strong disease monitoring system and clarify ...

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