CoV-2, which can enter human cells using the same gateway as the highly contagious SAR-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19.

Scientists also discovered that HKU5-CoV-2 might infect human cells as well as small lung or gut tissues cultured in a lab.

Findings reported by a team of virologists at the Center for Emerging Infectious Diseases at Wuhan Institute of Virology.

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