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By muzzling information China aided corona, can nations sue?

The world is petrified, paining and peeved. For, good people, there is a spectre, to paraphrase Karl Marx, haunting the world. All metropolis, hamlets and villages are reeling under the weight of this invisible adversary with a cold name - Covid-19. At the time of writing, over two million people had been infected by the virus; 135,230 deaths. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) had predicted a -3 percentage contraction of the global economy. The world - under the great lockdown.  

Covid-19, caused by coronavirus, originated from Wuhan City in China and started like a joke. Like the usual sneeze which is sneered at. But, one doctor, Li Wenliang, raised the alarm. He was concerned that the disease appeared strange, behaving like Sars. Contagious and had no cure. Chinese police arrested the doctor and demanded he retracts his “rumour mongering” statements. He did. He later died of the disease. It’s like a stuff of legend.

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