The genome appears to be that of a "completely new" coronavirus unrelated to any known human or animal viruses, a scientist at the Canadian agency said.

加拿大研究所的一位科学家说，病毒的基因组表明这是一种“全新的”冠状病毒，与任何已知的人类或动物病毒都没有联系。

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It could also, however, be a mutation of another human coronavirus.

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The 13 cases, many of them linked to one Saudi hospital, suggest that the spread of this coronavirus may have reached a dangerous new stage in which it is spreading from one human to another, rather than infecting humans from another source such as an infected animal, according to infectious-disease experts.

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