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More coronaviruses looming large: Words of caution from China's 'bat woman'

What is worrying is that China is not the only "hot spot" from where such a future outbreak could originate, said the report, adding that other major emerging economies, such as India, are at risk

Health workers wearing protective outfits seen in a street during ongoing COVID-19 lockdown in Kolkata. Photo: PTI
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Health workers wearing protective outfits seen in a street during ongoing COVID-19 lockdown in Kolkata. Photo: PTI

IANS New Delhi

Even after the world finds a way to combat the virus responsible for Covid-19, it should prepare for more outbreaks caused by bat-borne coronaviruses, warns a top virologist from China.

"We must find them before they find us," Shi Zhengli who is also known among her colleagues as "bat woman" for her virus-hunting expeditions in bat caves over the past 16 years, was quoted as saying in an article published in the June 2020 issue of Scientific American magazine.

What is worrying is that China is not the only "hot spot" from where such a future outbreak could originate, said the report,