A newly discovered bat coronavirus could at some point spread to humans like COVID-19, Chinese researchers have found. The virus, HKU5-CoV-2, does not enter human cells as readily as SARS-CoV-2, which causes COVID-19, the scientists reported in the journal Cell. However, they found that the bat virus uses the same cell-surface protein, ACE2, as SARS-CoV-2 to help it enter human cells. In lab experiments, HKU5-CoV-2 infected human cells with high ACE2 levels in test tubes and in models of human intestines and airways. Read more science and technology news: How AI is being used to manipulate German voters New prostate...