Research Progress for SARS-CoV-2/ 2019新型冠状病毒的研究进展

Since December 2019, the outbreak of COVID-19 in Wuhan, China, has spread rapidly to other provinces and cities in China SARS-CoV-2 belongs to the β-coronavirus, which is closely related to SARS-CoV and MERS-CoV, but is quite different, especially the spike protein, which may be derived from bats according to sequence comparison, SARS-CoV-2 uses the same receptor, angiotensin converting enzyme Ⅱ (ACE2), as SARS-CoV The main transmission routes included droplets and close contacts The lack of effective drug and vaccine is the challenge for the outbreak control