Relatives of pandemic coronavirus found in labs in Cambodia and Japan

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Coronaviruses closely related to the pandemic coronavirus discovered in Japan and Cambodia

The viruses, both found in bats stored in laboratory freezers, are the first SARS-CoV-2 relatives to be found outside China.

A coronavirus related to SARS-CoV-2 has been found in Shamel’s horseshoe bats captured in Cambodia in 2010. Meanwhile, a team in Japan has reported the discovery of another closely related coronavirus — also found in frozen bat droppings.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-03217-0

 

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** This post was originally published on November 25, 2020 **