After Wuhan lifts its ban, California businesses are filing an $8 trillion lawsuit People’s Republic China, the City Wuhan and that country’s Health Commission over claims they tried to cover up the Coronavirus pandemic.
The Coronavirus pandemic has led to shutdowns across the world, especially in the U.S. and Canada as numbers continue to spike. Wuhan, the center the pandemic, recently lifted the ban after 72 days but as COVID-19 continued to impact the world economically, a group small businesses in the U.S. is taking the People’s Republic China to court on claims they tried to cover up the severity the illness.
Rich Fury/Getty s
A group small businesses in California that includes Cardiff Prestige Property, Little Saigon Chamber Commerce, First Premier X and others have filed an $8 trillion lawsuit against the People’s Republic China, the City Wuhan, and China’s Health Commission. In documents obtained by TMZ, the group businesses accuses the Chinese government trying to cover up the pandemic. They said that the government in China knew about this “new” disease but didn’t say anything and attempted to cover it up.
In addition, they accuse the city Wuhan having a bio-weapons laboratory near the city that might be behind the infected bat that ended up in the wet market. Essentially, the group businesses is accusing China failing to uphold its duty to inform WHO the possible pandemic before February.
As non-essential businesses have closed because the pandemic, the group is demanding $8 trillion in damages for the forced closures and losses.