新型コロナウイルスのようなウイルスがタイに生息するコウモリから発見されました。COVID-19 virus was detected from the bats living in Thailand.
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Virus closely related to SARS-CoV-2 (a name of the virus of COVID-19) was detected from the bats living in Thailand. When the SARS-CoV-2 and RacCS203 (a virus this research group found) was genetically compared, there was 91% match. Before this study, there are viruses similar to SARS-CoV-2 found in bats living in Japan, and although this research did not find a place of origin for SARS-CoV-2, it did expanded the area that virus closely related to SARS-CoV-2 was found up to 4800km.