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

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

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

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

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 ...

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

Covid-19 like new bat virus HKU5-CoV hasn’t been detected in humans yet. It has only been identified in a laboratory.

Chinese researchers have identified a new bat coronavirus, HKU5-CoV-2, capable of infecting human cells, sparking renewed ...

Chinese virologists have identified a new bat coronavirus using the same human receptor as COVID-19, potentially allowing animal-to-human transmission. The discovery led by Shi Zhengli, from the Wuhan ...

A new coronavirus has been found in bats that closely resembles the one that led to the 2020 pandemic, according to ...

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