Scientists in Wuhan have warned of a new strain of Covid discovered in bats, which could have a far higher mortality rate than the virus that plunged the world into lockdown five years ago.

Earlier this month, China said its bio-lab in Wuhan which faced allegations leaking the COVD-19 causing the global pandemic has never engaged in 'gain-of-function studies' on coronavirus amid ...

That includes USAID’s role in funding research at China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology, or WIV, where the Central Intelligence Agency and others believe SARS‑CoV‑2, a strain of coronavirus ...

Another coronavirus feared to be powerful enough to spread through humans has been discovered in China. In scenes eerily ... researchers at the infamous Wuhan Institute of Virology detected ...

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Article continues below The sprawling metropolis of Wuhan is where the virus, that claimed 227,000 lives in the UK, first originated. Located in the centre of China, Wuhan was little heard of ...

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The virus, unearthed at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, carries the risk of animal-to-human transmission, though the infection has not yet been identified in a living person, according to a study ...

Police in Wuhan, Central China's Hubei Province, recently introduced a new Corgi police dog named Tu Bao, following the debut of China's first Corgi police dog Fu Zai in East China's Shandong ...

Researchers at Wuhan lab discovered a new bat coronavirus, HKU5-CoV-2, which shares entry pathways with SARS-CoV-2 but poses limited risk to humans. Researchers at China’s Wuhan Institute of ...

HKU5-CoV-2: A new coronavirus in bats, called HKU5-CoV-2, has been discovered by the scientists at China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology. This virus is similar to the virus that causes Covid-19.