Chinese court hears Covid defamation case against US state of Missouri

FILE PHOTO: Staff members in protective suits stand at Hubei Provincial Hospital of Integrated Chinese and Western Medicine where members of the World Health Organisation team tasked with investigating the origins of the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) are visiting, in Wuhan, Hubei province, China January 29, 2021. - Reuters

HONG KONG: A Chinese court has started hearing a defamation case filed by local authorities and scientific institutions against the US state of Missouri and several of its current and former attorneys general, over claims that they fabricated and disseminated false information related to the coronavirus pandemic.

According to an official notice published on Tuesday (Nov 3), the Wuhan Intermediate People's Court, in central Hubei province, formally accepted the case, which was jointly brought by the Wuhan municipal government, the Wuhan Institute of Virology and Beijing's Chinese Academy of Sciences.

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资料照片：2021年1月29日，在中国湖北省武汉市，身穿防护服的工作人员站在湖北省中西医结合医院，世界卫生组织负责调查新冠病毒（COVID-19）起源的专家组成员正在该院访问。——路透社

香港：中国一家法院开始审理一起由地方当局和科研机构对美国密苏里州及其几位现任和前任总检察长提起的诽谤诉讼，指控他们捏造和散布与冠状病毒大流行有关的虚假信息。

根据周二（11月3日）发布的官方通知，湖北省武汉市中级人民法院正式受理了此案，该案由武汉市政府、武汉病毒研究所和北京中国科学院联合提起诉讼。

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