BBCNEWS Origins October 30, 2021 19:37:00
There is one very close relative of it, ratgis. ratgb was found in horse—shoe bats in china's southern yunnan province back in 2013 after six minors got sick. three of them died. researchers studied and officially identified the virus. it is a 96.2% match with sars—cov—2, and even closer relatives have been found in bat caves in neighbouring laos in the last few weeks. this is significant because both ratgb and the more recently identified banal—52 are the closest known relatives of sars—cov—2, and either or both could have changed enough over the last few decades to be able to jum...