The study found that HKU5-CoV-2 contains a furin cleavage site, a feature that enhances viral entry into cells via the ACE2 ...
Lab experiments showed that the virus could infect human cells with high ACE2 levels, including models of human intestines ...
Another highly infectious variant of coronavirus - HKU5-CoV-2 detected in China is capable of evading vaccine-induced ...
This newly isolated strain can bind to the ACE2 receptor in human cells, the same pathway used by the Covid-19 virus.