Table 4. Spearman’s rank correlation coefficient (ρ) values from Figs 6 and 7, for which all p-values <10⁻⁵.

The strongest correlation value was found between Betacoronavirus and Sarbecovirus when using the data sets from Test 3a from Table 2 and Test 4 from Table 3, respectively.

Dataset	Comparison Groups COVID-19 virus vs.	ρ value
Test-3a	Alphacoronavirus	0.70
	Betacoronavirus	0.74
	Gammacoronavirus	0.63
	Deltacoronavirus	0.60
Test-4	Embecovirus	0.59
	Merbecovirus	0.64
	Nobecovirus	0.54
	Sarbecovirus	0.72