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New Delhi: Chinese researchers have discovered a new type of coronavirus, NeoCoV, that is spreading among bats in South Africa. In their study, scientists say that this virus can pose a threat to humans in the future. Here are 5 things that Wuhan researchers had to say about the NeoCov coronavirus: NeoCoV is closely related to Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS), a viral disease first identified in Saudi Arabia in 2012, Chinese researchers said in a recent peer-reviewed study posted on the preprint repository BioRxiv. The virus carries the high mortality rate of MERS-CoV (where an average of one in...
