In his 33-page plea, Solani also demanded Rs 190 lakh crore on behalf of the Government of India from China, as damages covering the cost of dealing with the COVID-19 outbreak. This humble Complaint/Petition is being filed on account of the recent outbreak and ongoing disease namely, COVID-19 in China and soon engulfed the entire world in its flames. On 31st December 2019, the WHO through its China office was informed about a “pneumonia-like” of unknown etiology (unknown cause) disease which is spreading in Wuhan City, China. It is highly suspected that the workers handling these wild animals are the transferees of the virus from the carrier wild animals, which then starts to spread to other humans via ‘contact’ transmission, i.e human-to-human transmission," noted Sohani. The petition also accuses China of flouting the International Health Regulation as well as the Rome Statute of the ICC.

Source: dna April 19, 2020 04:18 UTC