New Covid virus with ‘furin clevage site’ mutation found in ‘moustached’ wild bats has likely been ‘spreading unnoticed’

SCIENTISTS have discovered a new Covid-like virus in ‘moustached’ bats in Brazil which they believe has – until now – been spreading silently. The virus, called BRZ batCoV, was found in Pteronotus parnellii – a small insect-eating bat known for the tiny tufts of hair that stick out from its face – common across much…