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 to humans remains unclear, scientists say. Researchers from São Paulo ...

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 ...

New viruses that are genetically similar to known fatal viruses have been discovered near food sources in a concerning new ...

The origins of COVID-19 remain a mystery as WHO says “Cannot rule out any theory” after an inconclusive study. Many theories about the origins of COVID-19 have been debated extensively since the ...

New WHO report suggests COVID-19 originated from animal-to-human transmission, though Director-General Tedros maintains all ...