Shi Zhengli, a leading virologist, became known as “Bat Woman” for her work on coronaviruses. She has spent decades studying ...

Scientists at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China have discovered a new lineage of a coronavirus in bats that can enter human cells in a similar fashion as SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes Covid ...

In a study published in the journal, Cell, Jing Chen, PhD, and colleagues at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, Wuhan, China, ...

A collaboration between researchers in the Brazilian states of São Paulo and Ceará and colleagues affiliated with Hong Kong ...

The discovery of a new bat coronavirus in China has sparked concerns of another pandemic. The virus, HKU5-CoV-2, is similar ...

No infections have been detected in humans so far, the CDC said. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said on Monday that the new coronavirus found in bats is currently not a cause ...

China denies German media reports of an assessment carried out by spying agency BND in 2020 supporting the theory.

On the other hand, this new found bat virus is initially found in bats in Hing Kong. Because HKU5-CoV-2 is member of ...

From animal hosts to laboratory leaks, the debate over the origin of the coronavirus pandemic is not yet settled – and may ...

FEW of us had heard of the Chinese city of Wuhan when the world was first paralysed by Covid-19 five years ago. Today, the ...

COVID-19 struck the world at a time when China and the U.S. were closing in on trade negotiations, shattering a potential ...