The discovery of a new bat coronavirus in China has sparked concerns of another pandemic. The virus, HKU5-CoV-2, is similar to to SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19.

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 ...

A new coronavirus discovered in bats in Brazil has been found to share similarities with the deadly Mers virus but its risk ...

Five years removed from the onset of Covid-19's global sweep, research into another subset of the coronavirus has scientists ...

A new bat coronavirus that has the capacity to spread to humans, similar to the one that caused the COVID-19 pandemic, has been discovered. HKU5-CoV-2 was found by a Chinese research team led by ...

"CDC is aware of a publication about a new bat coronavirus, but there is no reason to believe it currently poses a concern to public health," the agency said in a statement.

If we want to prevent viral infections or develop drugs that can effectively treat them, those infections have to be ...

Viscount Ridley, co-author of Viral: the search for the origin of Covid-19, said: “Like all other formal investigations, the ...

A LEADING theory that the Covid pandemic originated from a lab leak in China cannot be ruled out, the World Health ...

All hypotheses on how the Covid-19 pandemic began remain open, the World Health Organization said, following an inconclusive ...