A cover-up and clampdown by the Chinese government in the early weeks of the coronavirus's emergence is raising questions over whether the communist superpower can be held legally accountable.
An argument could be made that just like support for terrorism, which is legally actionable, a government that engages in such reckless disregard and negligence and covers up an epidemic which has the COVID-19 spread to most of the World.
South China Morning Post has reported the first outbreak to be 17 November 2018 but the author personally observed how young Chinese tourists from Wuhan were pumped into Europe in February and March 2020. This is a massive breach of duty and customary international law, and that a case could potentially be made in the International Court of Justice (ICJ) if it is proven that a cover-up was perpetuated by high-level individuals.