Was the coronavirus a biological weapon sent by a world power?
China receives $20 billion lawsuit from US group.
Emerging in China in December, the COVID-19 coronavirus has already caused the death of more than 58,000 people worldwide, while the number of confirmed cases exceeded one million last Thursday, April 2.
The plaintiffs have requested $20 trillion , an amount exceeding China's GDP of $14.38 trillion in 2019. The lawsuit alleges that COVID-19 is a biological weapon prepared by Chinese authorities.
American lawyer Klayman and his activist group Freedom Watch filed the class action lawsuit in a federal court in Texas against the Chinese government, the Chinese military, the Wuhan Institute of Virology, the Director of the Wuhan Institute of Virology, Shi Zhengli, and Chinese Army Major General Chen Wei.
Buzz Photos, a company specializing in sports photography, had to close due to quarantine and is on the verge of bankruptcy, which prompted the board to also submit the request.
They have accused China of aiding and abetting murder, providing material support to terrorists, conspiring to cause injury and death to American citizens, negligence, wrongful death, and assault and battery—serious charges that will surely be in court for several years.
“There is no reason why the American taxpayer, contrary to the Washington establishment, should have to pay for the tremendous damage caused by the Chinese government ,” Klayman said in a statement. “The Chinese people are a good people, but their government is not, and it must pay dearly.”
The plaintiffs allege that the virus was released from the Wuhan Institute of Virology, stating that the COVID-19 virus was "engineered" by China to kill populations en masse. Biological weapons were outlawed in 1925 , and therefore, such a biological weapon is a weapon of mass destruction related to terrorism, the lawsuit stated.
The US group cites multiple media reports stating that only one microbiology lab in China handled advanced viruses like the novel coronavirus, located in Wuhan. To cover up the fact, the plaintiffs allege, China linked statements about the coronavirus to national security protocols.
Klayman and the plaintiffs also alleged that Chinese doctors and researchers who spoke out about the coronavirus and "raised the alarm to the outside world internationally" were "silenced."
