Wuhan scientists warn of a new COVID virus ‘NeoCov’ with a high death rate and spread, where 1 in 3 die, something to worry about.
While NeoCoV was discovered in a bat population in South Africa and has only been known to spread among these animals, a new study published as a preprint on the bioRxiv website discovered that NeoCoV and its close relative PDF-2180-CoV can infect humans.
According to researchers from Wuhan University and the Chinese Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Biophysics, only one mutation is required for the virus to infiltrate human cells., only one mutation is required for the virus to infiltrate human cells. If NeoCoV starts to mutate, it will start to infiltrate human cells.
This variant is not entirely new say scientists from China’s Wuhan, where the COVID-19 virus was first discovered in 2019, and now have warned of a new type of coronavirus ‘NeoCov’ in South Africa, stated to have a high death and transmission rate, according to a report by the Russian news agency Sputnik.
Associated with the MERS-CoV virus, it was found in outbreaks in Middle Eastern countries in 2012 and 2015 and is similar to the SARS-CoV-2, which causes coronavirus in humans.
Wuhan scientists warn of the ‘1 in 3 dies, should we worry’, very infectious and very deadly.
The research findings stated that NeoCov is very dangerous because it binds to the ACE2 receptor differently than the coronavirus pathogen. As a result, neither antibodies nor protein molecules produced by people with respiratory diseases nor who have been immunized can be protected against NeoCoV.
Following a briefing on NeoCoV, experts from the Russian State Virology and Biotechnology Research Center issued a statement on Thursday, the report stated.