A team of Chinese researchers, led by 'batwoman' Shi Zhengli discovered a new bat coronavirus HKU5-Cov-2 which could ...

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

The HKU5-CoV-2 strain was collected from pipistrelle bats swabbed across China’s Guangdong, Fujian, Zhejiang, Anhui, and Guangxi provinces. It was found to be a new lineage of the HKU5 coronavirus ...

HKU5-CoV-2 has sparked concerns because it can spread to humans in a similar way to the one that caused the COVID-19 pandemic ...

The virus, unearthed at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, carries the risk of animal-to-human transmission, though the ...

The discovery of a new bat coronavirus in China has sparked concerns of another pandemic. The virus, HKU5-CoV-2, is similar ...

Research was led by Shi Zhengli, a virologist known as the 'batwoman', who is best known for her work on coronaviruses at a ...

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

HKU5-CoV-2 was found by a Chinese research team led by virologist Shi Zhengli, known as "Batwoman" for her work on ...

Another coronavirus with a higher potential to infect humans than other coronaviruses has been discovered in bats by ...

Experts note that HKU5-CoV-2 has a lower binding affinity to human ACE2 than SARS-CoV-2, and its ability to infect humans on ...

Chinese scientists, led by Shi Zhengli, have discovered a novel coronavirus, HKU5-CoV-2, that can infect humans and other mammals. Isolated from the Japanese pipistrelle bat, this virus shares the ...