摘要
A novel coronavirus reported to cause pneumonia in 41 people during December 2019 in Wuhan,the capital of Hubei province,China,was identified and designated as the 2019 novel coronavirus(2019-nCoV)(Zhu et al.,2020;Li et al.,2020).Infection with 2019-nCoV results in clusters of severe respiratory illness similar to that caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus(SARS-CoV)and is associated with high mortality(Chen et al.,2020;Huang et al.,2020).This new coronavirus belongs to genus Betacoronavirus,family Coronaviridae,with a single-stranded,positive-sense RNA genome,but genetically distinct from SARS-CoV and Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus(MERS-CoV).
基金
This work was supported by funding from CAS Pioneer Hundred Talents Program to J.C.
