Vaccine Stocks Rise as Chinese Scientists Discover a New Coronavirus

Some scientists at Wuhan Institute of Virology, China said they had discovered a new coronavirus called HKU5-Cov-2 in bats that has the potential to be transferred to humans. Per reports, the virus belongs to the same family of coronaviruses as SARS-CoV-2, the virus that caused the deadly COVD-19 pandemic.