A court in the United States has decided to recover $24 billion from China due to COVID-19

The federal court of the US state of Missouri has decided to recover $ 24 billion from China for concealing data on the coronavirus (COVID-19). This was reported on March 7 by The New York Times (NYT).

It is clarified that local officials promised to recover the funds by seizing the assets of the PRC. Chinese officials, in turn, expressed disagreement with the court's decision.

The lawsuit was filed by Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey in April 2020. According to the text, in the first months of the pandemic, the Chinese government hid information about the existence and spread of the coronavirus. Subsequently, the authorities were accused of stopping the supply of personal protective equipment worldwide.

Representatives of the Chinese side did not participate in the trial. After the charges were filed in 2020, the Chinese Foreign Ministry called this lawsuit a mockery of the judicial proceedings, clarifiesГазета.Ru ".

Game on: what's behind the COVID origins report

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On December 2, US congressmen published a report on the results of a three-year investigation into the coronavirus pandemic, which states that COVID-19 has a laboratory origin. According to the report, the weight of the facts increasingly confirms the hypothesis that the virus leaked from the laboratory as a result of an accident.

As a result of these arguments, the United States accused the Chinese government, agencies of the American authorities and some members of the international community of seeking to conceal the facts of the origin of the coronavirus that caused the pandemic.