Senator Lindsey Graham said that he had introduced a bill to impose sanctions against China for the distribution of COVID-19. The bill authorizes the President of the United States Donald Trump to impose sanctions if China does not provide a full report on the occurrence of a disease outbreak.
“the Bill requires the President within 60 days confirmed that China had provided a full report to investigate the causes of coronavirus COVID-19, conducted by the United States, its allies or the UN,” according to Bloomberg. In the document the United States also urged China to release activists detained in Hong Kong.
Earlier, Mr. trump said that China will be responsible if it turns out that he had deliberately concealed information about the coronavirus. He is confident that the spread of the coronavirus began from the lab in the Chinese city of Wuhan and was instructed to find out, could China and the who to conceal information about the coronavirus.
on 3 may, the Australian newspaper The Daily Telegraph, citing a report of the reconnaissance of the Union of the “Five eyes” (USA, Australia, Canada, UK and New Zealand) reported that the Chinese authorities deliberately concealed and destroyed information about the outbreak of coronavirus COVID-19 in the country.
the following day The Guardian wrote that the intelligence of the Union of the “Five eyes” actually no proof of the theory that the coronavirus was established in research laboratory of the Chinese Wuhan. The world health organization also stated that so far the U.S. government has not provided any evidence of this theory and the statements of Mr. trump called “controversial”.
