Five years removed from the onset of Covid-19's global sweep, research into another subset of the coronavirus has scientists worried about another possible pandemic. This virus originated in bats, as ...

Indian pharmaceutical industry defends Covid-19 vaccines amid concerns, emphasizing global standards, safety, and efficacy to ...

"These viruses are so closely related to MERS, so we have to be concerned if they ever infect humans," said virologist Michael Letko.

New WHO report suggests COVID-19 originated from animal-to-human transmission, though Director-General Tedros maintains all ...

This bat coronavirus also hasn’t been detected in humans—lab tests just found it has the potential to infect people. That doesn’t mean that people will get HKU5-CoV-2, though.

New Bat Virus Could Spread to Humans Like COVID-19 Scientists have discovered HKU5-CoV-2, a new bat coronavirus that can infect humans, raising concerns about potential zoonotic spillover and ...

Scientists remain divided on the origins of the COVID-19 virus, with limited data and no consensus reached after years of ...

The origins of COVID-19 remain a mystery as WHO says “Cannot rule out any theory” after an inconclusive study. Many theories about the origins of COVID-19 have been debated extensively since the ...

All hypotheses on how the COVID-19 pandemic began remain open, the World Health Organization said Friday, following an ...

Scientists have discovered 20 new bat viruses in China, including strains related to Nipah and Hendra, raising global health ...

Within just a few months, SARS-CoV-2 had traversed international borders, leading to a global crisis. Even today, COVID-19 remains a concern, though at significantly reduced levels.

This development came after a few years of COVID-19 outbreaks, which also occurred in China, with its first known case in Wuhan city and sparked global worry about the emerging virus threats in 2019.