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