142 bat coronaviruses uncovered in China, none close to COVID-19 142 bat coronaviruses uncovered in China, none close to COVID-19


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Share Copied The latest research on bats by Chinese researchers focuses on samples collected from over 13,000 bats of 56 species across 14 provinces since 2016. /CFP A Chinese study has uncovered 142 bat coronaviruses related to the one that caused the SARS outbreak nearly two decades ago, but none closely linked to the virus that caused COVID-19, the South China Morning Post has reported. In a paper uploaded on the preprint server Research Square on Monday, researchers from the Institute of Pathogen Biology in Beijing revealed that they had collected and tested samples from more than 4,700 bats in...