Findings reported by a team of virologists at the Center for Emerging Infectious Diseases at Wuhan Institute of Virology. Study published in the journal Cell.
Researchers at the Chinese lab accused of leaking the COVID-19 virus have now discovered a new coronavirus in bats that closely matches the one that led to the deadly worldwide outbreak in 2020 ...
Experiments revealed that HKU5-CoV-2 enters human cells in the same manner as SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for Covid-19.
Another highly infectious variant of coronavirus - HKU5-CoV-2 detected in China is capable of evading vaccine-induced immunity. Will this new variant trigger another pandemic? Read on to find out!
More than five years on, studies suggest the animal is the most likely culprit, but other candidates haven't been ruled out.