Covid-Like Bat Virus Discovered by Researchers in Chinese Lab

  • Virus hasn’t been seen in humans yet, but vaccine stocks rose
  • New coronavirus enters cells in similar fashion as Covid
The campus of the Wuhan Institute of Virology in 2020.Photographer: Hector Retamal/AFP/Getty Images
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Researchers at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China said they discovered a new coronavirus in bats that enters cells using the same gateway as the virus that causes Covid-19.

This virus hasn’t been detected in humans, merely identified in a laboratory. Word of the discovery lifted the shares of some vaccine makers Friday.