'Shift in bat diversity': Climate change may have played 'key role' in COVID-19 pandemic
Last Updated: 'Shift In Bat Diversity': Climate Change May Have Played 'key Role' In COVID-19 Pandemic Emergence of SARS-CoV-2 can be attributed to clearance of vegetation in past 100 years, and the migration of an additional 40 bat species due to climate change. Climate change could have had a "key role" in the spread of the coronavirus pandemic, a new study that analysed the Southeast Asia forests, known as "a global hotspot" for bat species revealed. The global spread of the deadly pathogen that wreaked havoc on the world may have been the result of shifts in global bat diversity caus...