Virus similar to Covid found in British bats .......

Mrs Trellis

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......says an article in the Sunday Times 25/04/2021 p11.  The virus is sarbecovirus strain RhGB01 and it is said cannot infect humans in its current state.
 
US have picked up on the story (apparently lesser horseshoes in Gloucestershire):
https://www.nypost.com/2021/04/25/virus-similar-to-covid-19-found-in-uk-bats-by-22-year-old/

What bat conservation said about it (before the announcement):
https://www.bats.org.uk/about-bats/bats-and-disease/covid-19-and-bats

Coronaviruses have been well known in bats for years (published Mar 2019):
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6466186/#!po=8.72093

& 2015:
https://virologyj.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12985-015-0422-1
 
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