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Coronaviruses closely related to the pandemic virus discovered in Japan and Cambodia – Nature.com
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 Shamels horseshoe bats captured in Cambodia in 2010.Credit: Merlin D. Tuttle/SPL
Two lab freezers in Asia have yielded surprising discoveries. Researchers have told Nature they have found a coronavirus that is closely related to SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for the pandemic, in horseshoe bats stored in a freezer in Cambodia. Meanwhile, a team in Japan has reported the discovery of another closely related coronavirus also found in frozen…
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