China has discovered a new coronavirus

A Chinese team has discovered a new coronavirus in bats that can pass from animals to humans, using the same human receptor as the virus that causes COVID-19.

The study has been led by Shi Gengli éngli é a popular virologist, often named “the wife of bats <x0x1> due to her extensive research into coronavus of the bats at the Guangzous laboratory, in collaboration with researchers from the Guangzous Academy of Sciences, the University of Wwan, and the Wwan Institute of Virology.

The rain is known for its work at the Wuhan Institute, which has been the center of controversy over the origin of COVID-19, with a theory suggesting that the virus may have emerged from a laboratory leak in the city.

While there is still no consensus on the origin of the virus, some studies suggest that it stems from bats and may have been transmitted to humans through a middle animal. The rain has denied that the institute was responsible for the outbreak of the virus.

The latest discovery is a new HK5 coronavrus line, first identified in Hong Kong's Japanese bat, writes Foreign media.

The new virus belongs to merbocitovius, including the virus that causes Middle Eastern respiratory syndrome (MERS).

This virus is able to connect to the converting enzyme (ACE2) on humans, the same receptor that SARS-CoV-2 virus, causing COVID-19, to infect cells.

“We report the discovery and isolation of a specific HK5 (line 2) line - CoV, which can use not only ACE2 of the bats, but also of the human and other mammals”, writes researchers on a paper published in the science magazine “Cell”.

Researchers found that when the virus was isolated from bat samples, it was able to infect human cells as well as artificially developed structures that mimic the respiratory organs and intestines.

“Merbocistovius of bats... present a high risk of spreading to humans, whether through direct transmission or through middle animals”, researchers added.

HU5- CoV-2 can not only connect to receptors ACE2 to humans, but also to some other species, which can act as a mediator ambush and transmit it to humans.

Subtype “Merbocistius” includes four distinct types ) virus M The ERS, two species found in bats and one iris, were added last year to the World Health Organization's list of pathogens in preparation for possible pandemics.

We remember that the magazine “Cell”* published a study by a team at the University of Washington in Seattle and the University of Wuhan, which concluded that although variant NO5 can connect to receptors ACE2 of bats and other mammals, he showed no strong attachment to humans.

However, Shit's team argues that HK5- The CoV-2 is more adaptable to connect to the ACE2 human species compared to the virus line 1 and “may have a wider range and a higher potential for infections among the” species.

They added that more monitoring of the virus is needed, but stressed that its ability to infect people is lower “insensible” than that of the COVID-19 virus and that “risk of the HK5- The CoV-2 in the human population should not be exaggerated”. /Telegraph