Full-length genome sequences were obtained from five patients at an early stage of the outbreak. The epidemic, which started on 12 December 2019, had caused 2,794 laboratory-confirmed infections including 80 deaths by 26 January 2020. Here we report the identification and characterization of a new coronavirus (2019-nCoV), which caused an epidemic of acute respiratory syndrome in humans in Wuhan, China. Previous studies have shown that some bat SARSr-CoVs have the potential to infect humans 5, 6, 7. ![]() Since the outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) 18 years ago, a large number of SARS-related coronaviruses (SARSr-CoVs) have been discovered in their natural reservoir host, bats 1, 2, 3, 4.
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