Published 10:23 IST, April 16th 2020
Indian-American Covid survivor tells Trump to seek trillions in compensation from China
Alleging that coronavirus was genetically-engineered in a Wuhan lab, an Indian-American survivor of the virus has urged Donald Trump to seek compensation.
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Alleging that coronavirus was genetically-engineered in a Wuhan lab, an Indian-American survivor of dely virus has urged US President Donald Trump to seek compensation from China, running into trillions of dollars, for thousands of deaths and harming American ecomy.
Coronavirus survivor pursues Trump to seek compensation
" unleashing of global death and suffering with coronavirus, a plague upon all of us, is worse than Pearl Harbor, and given its deception, and later, cover-up, lack any semblance of Hor," Indian-American attorney Ravi Batra said in a letter to president.
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"On established rules of law, China is at least guilty of negligence in proximately causing a world pandemic, where nearly two million people have suffered its pain and suffering, and nearly 122,000 souls have lost ir lives and left ir families damd and fractured," he said in a letter dated April 14.
China owes us civil compensation - at least for negligence - a fair and reasonable amount, "which I recommend match our standard for 9/11, but less than USD1 million dollars for every American who tested positive for Coronavirus, USD5 million for every American who died, and USD100,000 for every American who has to be 'locked down'," he said.
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"I recommend, given cover-up, which exacerbated injury, pain and suffering globally, as well as avoidable deaths, that China's ownership of debts in every country - for example USD1.2T in China's ownership of our T-Bills - be cancelled," Batra said.
In his letter, Batra charged China with hiding actual source of coronavirus. He also accused Beijing of igring " fraudulent assertion" by Chinese Communist Party Propaganda Czar that Wuhanan Seafood Market, with zero Bats, has any value to getting to source." China, it appears, is following an old playbook it developed in SARS outbreak, he alleged. On Wednesday, Fox News, in an exclusive report, said COVID-19 originated in a Wuhan laboratory t as a bio-weapon, but as part of China's effort to demonstrate that its efforts to identify and combat viruses are equal to or greater than capabilities of United States.
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This may be "costliest government coverup of all time," one of sources was quoted as saying by Fox News. When asked about Fox's report, President Donald Trump told reporters at White House that ministration is doing a thorough investigation of it.
"More and more we're hearing story...we are doing a very thorough examination of this horrible situation," Trump said in response to question.
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In his letter, Batra alleged COVID-19 has a reversed-engineered and grafted-on in a lab of natural-to-bats "receptor-binding" domain structure, "mushrooms" on surface, of "SARS-CoV".
" natural 'mushroom' on surface of 'SARS-CoV' is in a lab genetically ded/spliced/grafted onto '2019-n-CoV' - which I have, from personal experience, called a Trojan Horse to have a friendly 'handshake', is in fact accurate biochemically - as 'receptor-binding' unlocks human cell, and enters human body much easier!" he alleged.
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SARS' 'Bat-SL-CoVZc45' and 'Bat-SL-CoVZXC21' - with its natural Bat-based 'mushrooms on surface - did t enter humans," Batra said.
08:46 IST, April 16th 2020