A new type of coronavirus that could infect humans was confirmed in at least one pneumonia patient hospitalised in 2018 in the Malaysian state of Sarawak, a medical journal reports.
The virus was the first canine coronavirus to have been isolated in a human patient, according to a paper by an international team of scientists – including those from the US, Malaysia and China – published in the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases on Thursday.
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