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

Newly discovered bat coronavirus shares entry protein with COVID-19, but poses lower risk of human transmission, researchers ...

Researchers at Wuhan Institute of Virology, led by Shi Zhengli, discovered a new coronavirus, HKU5-CoV-2, in bats. While it ...

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

A new study led by Shi Zhengli, the Chinese scientist at the centre of research that’s suspected to have caused the Covid-19 ...

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

A Chinese team of virologists have found a new bat coronavirus that carries the risk of animal-to-human transmission because ...

Researchers dismissed the risk of HKU5 coronavirus spreading among human populations on a large scale, pointing out that its ...

The study on the new virus was carried out by leading Chinese virologist Shi Zhengli, who is also known as the “batwoman” as ...

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

The lab finding does raise the possibility that this new bat virus could spread from animals to humans, researchers said in a ...