{"id":38716,"date":"2021-06-13T22:48:11","date_gmt":"2021-06-13T17:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/?p=38716"},"modified":"2021-06-13T22:48:11","modified_gmt":"2021-06-13T17:18:11","slug":"new-coronavirus-found-in-bats-in-china-scientists-worried","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=38716","title":{"rendered":"New Coronavirus found in bats in china, Scientists worried"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>In a shocking revelation, Chinese researchers claim to have found a batch of new coronaviruses in bats. They even say that the newly found viruses in the bats include one that may be the second-closest yet (genetically) to the COVID-19 virus, reports CNN.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>According to the researchers, their discoveries in a single, small region of Yunnan province, southwestern China show just how many coronaviruses there are in bats and how many have the potential to spread to people.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>In a report published in the journal Cell, the Chinese researchers from Shandong University said, \u201cIn total, we assembled 24 novel coronavirus genomes from different bat species, including four SARS-CoV-2 like coronaviruses.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>One was very similar, genetically to the SARS-CoV-2 virus that\u2019s the cause of the current COVID-19 pandemic, they said.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>It would be the closest strain to SARS-CoV-2 except for genetic differences on the spike protein, the knob-like structure that the virus uses when attaching to cells, they said.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Researchers are trying to find where SARS-CoV-2 came from. Although a bat is a likely source, it\u2019s possible the virus infected an intermediary animal. The SARS virus that caused an outbreak in 2002-2004 was tracked to an animal called a civet cat.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Three of the samples described in Thursday\u2019s report were also close to SARS genetically.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>This discovery of new coronaviruses in bats comes at a time when scientists and countries across the world are calling for further investigations to figure out whether the virus originated naturally or leaked from the Wuhan Institute of Virology.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a shocking revelation, Chinese researchers claim to have found a batch of new coronaviruses in bats. They even say that the newly found viruses in the bats include one that may be the second-closest yet (genetically) to the COVID-19 virus, reports CNN. According to the researchers, their discoveries in a single, small region of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38276,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38716\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}