New type pneumonia infection source may be bat Chinese research institute 4:07 on January 30
In China, where the spread of the new coronavirus is widespread, 5974 cases and 133 people have died so far. Chinese government-sponsored laboratories have pointed out that bats may be the source of the infection, and are working to find out more about the cause.
In China, the spread of the new coronavirus is expanding, and according to the National Health and Health Commission, the number of patients reached 5,974, outnumbering the number of patients in mainland China with SARS, a new type of pneumonia that spread in 2003. Was.
The government of Sichuan Province also announced on the night of the 29th that one patient died for the first time in the province. According to the Chinese government's statistics, 133 people have died.
Under these circumstances, the government-affiliated research institute "Wuhan Virus Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences" released the analysis results of a new type of coronavirus on its homepage on the 29th, revealing that the source of infection may be bats.
According to this, when the sequence of the virus and the gene detected in the bat were compared, they were 96% identical.
Zhongnanshan, head of a team of Chinese health officials, also told state media that the new coronavirus had the same origin as the virus found in bats in 2017.
He pointed out that other wild animals could transmit the virus from bats, similar to SARS, and analyzed the genes of various animals to elucidate the cause of human infection. Revealed that.