Still recovering from heavy spending during the pandemic, hospitals are squeezed by a slumping economy and government efforts ...

Chinese researchers have identified a new bat coronavirus, HKU5-CoV-2, which binds to the same receptor as the COVID-19 virus ...

This newly isolated strain can bind to the ACE2 receptor in human cells, the same pathway used by the Covid-19 virus.

More than five years on, studies suggest the animal is the most likely culprit, but other candidates haven't been ruled out.

Researchers in China have discovered a new coronavirus in bats that they say has the potential to spread to humans, after the ...

Another highly infectious variant of coronavirus - HKU5-CoV-2 detected in China is capable of evading vaccine-induced ...

HKU5-CoV-2 is classified within the merbecovirus subgenus, which includes the MERS virus. Initially detected in the Japanese ...

Experts warn of looming "Disease X" as world fails to learn from COVID-19, risking another devastating pandemic.

Tours to North Korea via China are set to resume next week after a five-year hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic, according ...

A new study led by Shi Zhengli, the Chinese scientist at the centre of research that’s suspected to have caused the Covid-19 ...

CoV-2, has been discovered in China and is “strikingly similar to the pandemic virus” and feared to be powerful ...