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

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

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

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 ...

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

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

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 virus is able to bind to the human angiotensin converting enzyme, the same receptor used by the Sars-CoV-2 virus, which ...

An expert team in China led by virologist Shi Zhengli, known as "batwoman" for her work on coronaviruses has uncovered a new ...