A Chinese team has discovered a new bat coronavirus that poses a risk of transmission from animals to humans because it uses the same human receptor as the virus that causes Covid-19.
The study, reported by the South China Morning Post, was led by Shi Zhengli, the prominent virologist known as ‘batwoman’ for her extensive research on bat coronaviruses, at the Guangzhou Laboratory, along with researchers from the Guangzhou Academy of Sciences, Wuhan University, and the Wuhan Institute of Virology.