Chinese scientists have discovered a new bat coronavirus, HKU5-CoV-2, that has the ability to infect human cells, raising concerns about its potential risks. A research team led by virologist Shi […] ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

Researchers have discovered a new coronavirus in Chinese bats. HKU5-CoV-2 is a coronavirus belonging to the merbecovirusgroup ...

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

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 ...

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