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Relevant studies for a new article or section about SARS-CoV-2 related coronaviruses
Here are some studies that are currently featured in 2021 in science which may be useful for creating a new article or section about SARS-CoV-2 related coronaviruses. Maybe it would (also?) be relevant for expanding the article Investigations into the origin of COVID-19.

Scientists report the detection of coronaviruses closely related to SARS-CoV-2 (92.6% nucleotide identity) in two bats sampled in Cambodia in 2010,  complementing i.a. a study published on 17 September.

The item from 17 September:

Researchers report in a preprint the discovery of i.a. the so far closest known relative virus, with a 96.8% similarity, to SARS-CoV-2 in samples from wild horseshoe bats in northern Laos – 0.7% more similar than the virus RaTG13 discovered in China in 2013. Their findings indicate that, as of 2021, SARS-CoV-2-like viruses potentially infectious for humans circulate in bats in the Indochinese peninsula and that the pandemic virus may not originate from Wuhan. Other scientists complement these findings, reporting in a preprint published on 20 September, that they could not find any SARS-CoV-2 related viruses in any samples collected in China, including from the only two domestic caves where RaTG13 and RmYN02 were detected, indicating such viruses may currently not circulate in bats in the country.

Images from the study published in November (previously it was a preprint): Prototyperspective (talk) 09:52, 19 December 2021 (UTC)