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.

Scientists from Wuhan in China recently reported the discovery of another bat coronavirus with 'concerning' similarities to the virus that plunged the world into lockdown five years ago.

FEW of us had heard of the Chinese city of Wuhan when the world was first paralysed by Covid-19 five years ago. Today, the sprawling metropolis is synonymous with the ­pandemic that claimed ...

For more than two months, the city of Wuhan, China, was sealed off from the outside world. Flights in and out were canceled. Train and bus routes were suspended. Highway entrances were blocked.

In scenes eerily reminiscent of the beginnings of Covid, researchers at the infamous Wuhan Institute of Virology detected the new strain living within bats. HKU5-CoV-2 is strikingly similar to ...

Researchers at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China said they discovered a new coronavirus in bats that enters cells using the same gateway as the virus that causes Covid-19. This virus hasn ...

The researcher, who was employed at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, is believed to have been the first person to contract Covid in the fall of 2019 before it was officially recognized.

The scientists suspect infected animals were first brought to the Wuhan market in late November 2019, which then triggered the pandemic. Michael Worobey, one of the new study’s authors ...

The new virus called HKU5-CoV-2 was found by a team of virologists led by Shi Zhengli, a scientist known as “Batwoman” for her work in coronaviruses at the Wuhan Institute, The South China ...