The World Health Organisation has revealed that a new coronavirus was discovered by Chinese scientists and may pose a threat to humans in the future. Researchers from Wuhan, China, where Covid-19 was first spotted in 2019, found this new virus amongst bats in South Africa. At the same time, they warned of its high death and transmission rate. According to experts, the NeoCoV virus is not new. It is associated with the MERS-CoV virus, in outbreaks in Middle Eastern countries in 2012 and 2015, and is similar to SARS-CoV-2, which causes Covid-19 in humans. Coronaviruses are a wide range of viruses that can cause a variety of diseases, ranging from the common cold to Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, SARS.