{"id":25385,"date":"2020-12-04T21:52:20","date_gmt":"2020-12-04T12:52:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/dec\/04\/wuhan-virologist-warns-more-bat-coronaviruses-capable-of-crossing-over-covid-beyond-china"},"modified":"2020-12-04T21:52:20","modified_gmt":"2020-12-04T12:52:20","slug":"wuhan-virologist-says-more-bat-coronaviruses-capable-of-crossing-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=25385","title":{"rendered":"Wuhan virologist says more bat coronaviruses capable of crossing over"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Close relatives of Covid-19 virus likely to be circulating in nature beyond China, says Dr Shi Zhengli <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/series\/coronavirus-live\/latest\">Coronavirus \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Bats in the frontier regions of south and south-west China harbour other coronaviruses that already have the capacity to cross over to humans, a prominent Chinese scientist has said.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Shi Zhengli of the Wuhan Institute of Virology said these viruses, including close relatives of Sars-CoV-2, which causes Covid-19, were likely to be circulating in nature beyond China.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/dec\/04\/wuhan-virologist-warns-more-bat-coronaviruses-capable-of-crossing-over-covid-beyond-china\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Close relatives of Covid-19 virus likely to be circulating in nature beyond China, says Dr Shi Zhengli Coronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageBats in the frontier regions of south and south-west China harbour other coronaviruses th&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1306,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[265,41,918,50,1066,914,512,916,299,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animals","category-asia-pacific","category-biology","category-china","category-coronavirus","category-infectious-diseases","category-medical-research","category-microbiology","category-science","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1306"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25385"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25386,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25385\/revisions\/25386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}