HANOI, KOMPAS.com – The researchers found corona virus on bat which is stored on refrigerator laboratory of Cambodia and Japan.
Research on viruses is closely related SARS-CoV-2 it is published on jurnal Nature on Monday (23/11/2020).
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Launch Xinhua Indonesia On Thursday (26/11/2020), the corona virus in Cambodia was found in two Shamel horseshoe bats stored in a refrigerator that were caught in northern Cambodia in 2010.
Meanwhile, a team in Japan found another coronavirus that is also closely related to SARS-CoV-2 in frozen bat droppings, according to the study.
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“This virus is a relative of SARS-CoV-2 which was first known to be found outside of China,” the study wrote, noting that the new findings support a search effort by the World Health Organization (WHO) across Asia to investigate the animal origin of the Covid-19 pandemic. .
However, according to the study, it is still unknown whether the new coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 was transmitted directly from bats to humans or through an intermediate host.
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“These two findings are interesting because they confirm that the virus closely related to SARS-CoV-2 is relatively common in Rhinolophus bats, and even in bats found outside of China,” said Alice Latinne, an evolutionary biologist at Wildlife Conservation Society Vietnam in Hanoi.
Latinne has looked at some of the Cambodian team’s analyzes so far, he was quoted as saying.
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Aaron Irving, an infectious disease researcher at Zhejiang University in Hangzhou, China, said the findings suggest that “another as yet undiscovered SARS-CoV-2 relative” could be stored in a laboratory refrigerator.
He said he plans to also test stored samples of bats and other mammals.
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