In bats in China found coronavirus that can be transmitted as COVID-19

According to the newspaper South China Morning Post, a new type of coronavirus HKU5 was first discovered in Hong Kong. The study was conducted by a group of virologists, including specialists from the Chinese Academy of Sciences. “We are reporting the discovery and allocation of a second HKU5-CoV line, which can use <...> ACE2 people,” the statement said. The risk of HKU5-CoV-2 in human populations should not be exaggerated. But experts said that additional research was needed. Earlier it became known that the COVID-19 pandemic in the world could begin after the virus leaked from a laboratory in China, it is to this version that the US Central Intelligence Agency is inclined. Epidemiologist Gennady Onishchenko called the statements of Americans about the possible artificial origin of the coronavirus politically motivated.

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