Chinese scientists have discovered a new coronavirus in bats called HKU5-CoV-2. It shares similarities with SARS-CoV-2 and can infect human cells. Researchers are investigating its potential to spill ...

The new virus comes from the merbecovirus subgenus, which also includes the virus that causes Middle East respiratory ...

Covid-19 like new bat virus HKU5-CoV hasn’t been detected in humans yet. It has only been identified in a laboratory.

The newly discovered bat coronavirus belongs to a new lineage of the HKU5 coronavirus, which was first identified in the ...

The virus is able to bind to the human angiotensin converting enzyme, the same receptor used by the Sars-CoV-2 virus, which ...

A team of Chinese virologists has identified a new bat coronavirus that carries the potential for animal-to-human transmission. The virus, found to utilize the same human receptor as the Covid-19 ...

HKU5-CoV-2 can bind to the human angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE2) receptor, the same receptor used by SARS-CoV-2 to ...

A media report underscores that the virus, found by a Chinese team of virologists, uses the same human receptor as the virus ...

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 ...

Chinese researchers have identified a new bat coronavirus, HKU5-CoV-2, which binds to the same receptor as the COVID-19 virus ...

Wuhan: Researchers from China have identified a new bat coronavirus named HKU5-CoV-2, which can potentially infect humans.