Five years after SARS-CoV-2 triggered a worldwide pandemic, leading to widespread devastation, another bat-borne coronavirus HKU5-CoV-2 - a distant cousin of Covid-19 has been discovered in China ...

In a study published in the journal Cell, scientists stated that the virus, identified as HKU5-CoV-2, belongs to the merbecovirus subgenus, which includes the Mers virus. This newly detected COVID ...

HKU5-CoV-2 is a coronavirus belonging comes from the merbecovirus subgenus A new bat coronavirus, similar to the one that caused the COVID-19 pandemic, has been discovered in China. A Chinese team ...

The new virus comes from the merbecovirus subgenus, which also includes the virus that causes Middle East respiratory syndrome (Mers), the Hong Kong based South China Morning Post reported.