PREDICT Project received a six-month extension from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) to provide emergency support for COVID-19 outbreak response, effective April 1, 2020.
Results of a five-year study in 20 countries on three continents have found that bats harbor a large diversity of coronaviruses (CoV), the family of viruses that cause Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus (SARS) and Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus (MERS).
