The novel coronavirus first originated in a Chinese city and now has spread to 189 countries or territories, infected 423,368 people and killed over 18,908.
LAS VEGAS| An attorney who represented victims of the Las Vegas shooting massacre has filed a federal lawsuit against China’s government over the new coronavirus, saying that officials hid information about the outbreak and that U.S. small businesses should receive billions of dollars in damages.
The case seeks class-action status for 32 million businesses for lost income and profits.
Larry Klayman, his advocacy group Freedom Watch and Buzz Photos, a Texas company, filed the lawsuit in the US District Court for the Northern District of Texas, alleging that the novel coronavirus was “designed by China to be a biological weapon of war”, and that whether or not the country intended to release it, China violated “US law, international laws, treaties, and norms.”
“Because China has agreed by treaty to outlaw such weapons, these actions cannot be official governmental actions of the People”s Republic of China and are not subject to any possible claim of legal immunity from suit,” the lawsuit said, as cited by Law and Crime.
It went on to allege that the purpose of maintaining the virus within the laboratory was to use it to “kill US citizens and other persons and entities in nations perceived to be an enemy of China.”
“COVID-19 is an extremely dangerous disease because it has an extremely aggressive nature, was designed to mutate from person to person, spreads very quickly and easily, no vaccine exists yet on account of it being a new disease, the means of transmission are not fully known with certainty, and treatments are only just being worked out, and the disease appears to be about ten times as deadly as the flu,” the lawsuit read.
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In particular, the plaint alleges that there is sufficient indication that the Coronavirus was released recklessly from the Wuhan Institute of Virology in the city of Wuhan, Hubei province leading to the “bioweapon” eventually affected the citizens of the United States of America (US).
The plaintiffs argue that in effect, the new Coronavirus is a terrorist-related weapon of mass destruction of population centres.
To build their case that the new Coronavirus is a military weapon originating from Wuhan, the plaintiffs point to reports concerning the Chinese Government’s efforts to silence doctors in Wuhan and throughout China from disclosing any information about the new disease initially.
“Many reputable people and organizations and experts have thus come to the conclusion that this crisis began when a Chinese biological weapons facility accidentally released the COVID-19 virus into the atmosphere.”
The virus, which first originated in the Chinese city of Wuhan, has spread 189 countries or territories, infected more than 423,368 people and killed over 18,908, as per the latest data available.
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