Danger! China Warns of NeoCoV Virus with High Death Rate

BEIJING – Chinese scientists warn of the potential threat of death and high transmission rates associated with the strain of coronavirus found in South Africa, NeoCoV.

The NeoCoV virus discovered in South Africa is being discussed in media reports and has been around for some time. The virus is related to the Middle East respiratory syndrome MERS-CoV, whose outbreaks were recorded in 2012 and 2015.

The NeoCoV virus, related to the Middle East respiratory syndrome MERS-CoV, was linked to outbreaks in Middle Eastern countries in 2012 and 2015, which is nothing new. It is also similar in many ways to SARS-CoV-2 which causes COVID-19 in humans.

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NeoCoV was found in bat populations in South Africa and until recently had spread exclusively among these animals.

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But the new study, not yet reviewed by other experts and released in preprint on the bioRxiv website, unexpectedly finds NeoCoV and its close relative, PDF-2180-CoV, can use several strains of bat angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2) and human ACE2 to enter.

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“Just one mutation is enough for the virus to be able to infiltrate human cells,” claim scientists from Wuhan University and the Institute of Biophysics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

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