Amid the COVID-19 outbreak, a lawsuit has been filed against Chinese authorities. Freedom Watch, a Washington-based advocacy group, and Buzz Photos, a Texas company that specialises in high school sports photography, have filed a class action lawsuit against the China.
The case filed against the Chinese government, the Wuhan Institute of Virology, the Chinese army, Major General Chen Wei of the Chinese army and Shi Zhengli, the Director of Wuhan Institute of virology. The lawsuit demand $20 trillion in compensation for the damages caused by the novel coronavirus, or COVID-19, pandemic, reports IANS.
The claim have accused China of conspiracy to cause injury and death, aiding and abetting death, negligence, assault, battery and wrongful death.
However, the genomic sequence of the COVID – 19 in the article, “The proximal origin of SARS-CoV-2” shows a natural evolution and no evidence that it has been derived from laboratory. As other strains of coronavirus were emerged in the last two decades were the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) epidemic in 2003 in China, and the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) originated in Saudi Arabia in 2012.
They have blamed that the infection was unleashed from the Wuhan Institute of Technology, China. The research facility in Wuhan was the main microbiology lab in China that took care of infections like the SARS-CoV-2.
