> The article says a "new type of coronavirus", which is presumably a misunderstanding on the reporter's part It's ambiguous, but I think they just mean 2019-n

> The article says a "new type of coronavirus", which is presumably a misunderstanding on the reporter's part It's ambiguous, but I think they just mean 2019-nCoV. It's the one that was discovered late 2019. As opposed to the coronaviruses that were already known for years or decades.