NEW DELHI: Scientists have discovered a new coronavirus in bats that could become new trouble for the human population. The new virus, named "Khosta-2" sources are Russian bats and can infect human cells, Time magazine reported. 

The other name of Khosta-2 is sarbecovirus--the same sub-category of coronaviruses as SARS-CoV-2-and it displays "troubling traits".

Scientists believe that the new virus can skirt the immune protection from Covid-19 vaccines.
As per a report in the journal PLoS Pathogens, scientists led by Michael Letko, found a group of coronaviruses similar to SARS-CoV-2 that were initially discovered living in bats in Russia in 2020. Another virus found in Russian bats, Khosta-1, cannot enter human cells readily, but Khosta-2 could, the scientists claimed.
Khosta-2 attaches to the same protein, ACE2 that coronavirus uses to penetrate human cells.

Further, when scientists combined, serum from people who have been vaccinated against Covid-19 with Khosta-2, the antibodies in the serum did not neutralize the virus.
The same thing happened when they combined the Khosta-2 with the serum from people who had recovered from Omicron infection.
However, Letko told TIME.com, "We don’t want to scare anybody and say this is a completely vaccine-resistant virus. But it is concerning that viruses are circulating in nature that have these properties—they can bind to human receptors and are not so neutralized by current vaccine responses".