A new coronavirus with the potential to spread among humans has been discovered by Chinese researchers.

A team led by the virologist known as ‘Batwoman’ for her work on coronaviruses detected the new virus, HKU5-CoV-2, in bats in China.

HKU5-CoV-2 is similar to SARS-CoV-2, the virus that sparked the global Covid-19 pandemic, and has a higher potential than other coronaviruses to infect people because it infiltrates human cells the same way Covid does.

While there are hundreds of coronaviruses in the wild, only a few can infect humans.

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