Acknowledgements We thank Dr. Danielle Anderson of Duke-NUS Medical School for critical review of this report. We thank National Virus Resource Center (NCRC) in Wuhan Institute of Virology. Disclosure statement No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s). ORCID Zheng-Li Shi http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8089-163X Peng Zhou http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9863-4201