{"id":30345,"date":"2025-02-24T12:44:20","date_gmt":"2025-02-24T07:14:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=30345"},"modified":"2025-04-10T10:01:03","modified_gmt":"2025-04-10T04:31:03","slug":"hku5-cov-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/hku5-cov-2\/","title":{"rendered":"HKU5-CoV-2"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>HKU5-CoV-2 Latest News<\/h2>\n<p>A newly discovered bat coronavirus, HKU5-CoV-2, similar to the virus that caused the COVID-19 pandemic, has been identified in China.<\/p>\n<h2>About HKU5-CoV-2<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a newly discovered<strong> bat coronavirus<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>It closely <strong>resembles the SARS-CoV-2<\/strong>, the virus behind <strong>COVID-19 pandemic.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It belongs to the <strong>merbecovirus subgenus<\/strong>, which <strong>also includes<\/strong> the virus responsible for Middle East respiratory syndrome (<strong>MERS<\/strong>).\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>It can<strong> bind to human ACE2 receptors, similar to SARS-CoV-2<\/strong>. This suggests it has the<strong> potential for animal-to-human transmission.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>HKU5-CoV-2 has a <strong>lower binding affinity to human ACE2 than SARS-CoV-2, <\/strong>and its ability to infect humans on a large scale remains uncertain.<\/li>\n<li>The virus binds not just to human ACE2 but also to multiple mammalian species, meaning it could spread through an intermediate animal before reaching humans.<\/li>\n<li>There are <strong>no confirmed cases of HKU5-CoV-2 in humans<\/strong> yet, so its symptoms are unknown.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The<strong> discovery was made by <\/strong>a team of virologists led by <strong>Shi Zhengli, often referred to as &#8220;Batwoman&#8221;<\/strong> for her extensive research on coronaviruses at the Wuhan Institute, China.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>HKU5-CoV-2 FAQs<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q1<\/strong>. What is a coronavirus?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. Coronaviruses are a large family of viruses that usually cause mild to moderate upper-respiratory tract illnesses in humans.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q2<\/strong>. How long can COVID last?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. COVID-19 lasts anywhere from a few days to a few weeks.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q3<\/strong>. Do viruses have DNA?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. Viruses can have either DNA or RNA, but not both.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ndtv.com\/world-news\/what-you-need-to-know-about-the-new-bat-virus-hku5-cov-2-symptoms-how-it-can-affect-humans-7767902\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">NDTV<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HKU5-CoV-2 is a newly discovered bat coronavirus<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":30346,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-30345","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30345\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}