BANGKOK, Feb 14 (Xinhua): A new study found that a small group of bats in eastern Thailand carried a coronavirus which matches the one that causes Covid-19, according to media reports on Sunday.
The new virus was identified in the blood of five horseshoe bats in an artificial cave at a wildlife sanctuary, and researchers at Bangkok-based Chulalongkorn University found it shares 91.5 percent of the genetic code of SARS-CoV-2, Russia's Sputnik news agency quoted the study published on Tuesday by the journal Nature Communications as saying.
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