'1 IN 3 DIE,' SAYS REPORT, AS WUHAN SCIENTISTS WARN OF A NEW CORONAVIRUS 'NEOCOV' WITH A HIGH DEATH AND INFECTION RATE.

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According to a report by the Russian news agency Sputnik, scientists from Wuhan, China, where the Covid-19 virus was initially found in 2019, have warned of a new strain of coronavirus known as 'NeoCov' in South Africa, which has a high death and transmission rate.

The NeoCov virus, however, is not new, according to the paper. It was discovered in outbreaks in Middle Eastern countries between 2012 and 2015, and it is similar to the SARS-CoV-2 virus, which causes coronavirus in humans.

While NeoCoV was first detected in a bat population in South Africa and has only been known to spread among bats, a new unpeered study published as a preprint on the bioRxiv website has discovered that NeoCoV and its near sibling PDF-2180-CoV can also infect people.

Only one mutation is required for the virus to penetrate human cells, according to researchers from Wuhan University and the Chinese Academy of Sciences' Institute of Biophysics. The novel coronavirus offers a threat, according to the findings, since it attaches to the ACE2 receptor differently than the coronavirus pathogen. As a result, NeoCoV is not protected by antibodies or protein molecules produced by patients with respiratory disorders or who have been immunised.

According to Chinese researchers, NeoCoV has the potential to combine the high mortality rate of MERS-high CoV (one out of every three infected people dies) with the high transmission rate of the current SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus.

According to the report, experts from the Russian State Virology and Biotechnology Research Center issued a statement on Thursday following a briefing on NeoCoV.

"The Vector Research Centre is aware of the NeoCoV coronavirus data gathered by Chinese researchers." The worry for now isn't the creation of a new coronavirus capable of actively propagating among humans," it stated, adding that the possible risks indicated needed to be explored and investigated further.

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