Chinese scientists find a new batch of coronaviruses in bats

Chinese researchers said Thursday they had found a batch of new coronaviruses in bats, including one that may be the second-closest yet, genetically, to the COVID-19 virus. Weifeng Shi of the University of Shandong and colleagues collected samples from small, forest-dwelling bats between May 2019 and May 2020 in a single, small region of Yunnan […]