veloped RNA virus with a genome size of 29,903 bp. The phylogenetic analysis of the sequence showed that it belonged to the Sarbecovirus subgenus of genus Betacoronavirus and the family Coronaviridae. The sequence was closely related (~87.5% sequence similarity) to two bat-derived SARS-like CoV strains (bat-SL-CoVZC45 and bat-SL-CoVZXC21) that are known to infect humans, including the virus which led to the 2003 SARS-CoV-1 outbreak6. The 2019-nCoV is now named as SARS-CoV-27. Further, based on SimPlot analyses, it was demonstrated that SARS-CoV-2 was more closely related to the BatCoV RaTG13 sequence