Live Roundups Editor's Desk Insights Executive Ops Weather About 🔍
Home › Health › Chinese court hears US$53.5 billion Covid defamation...
Health

Chinese court hears US$53.5 billion Covid defamation case against US state of Missouri

Chinese court hears US$53.5 billion Covid defamation case against US state of Missouri
South China Morning Post Tuesday 03 November 2026, 13:00 UTC By Phoebe Zhang 1 min read
Key Points

A Chinese court has begun hearings in a defamation case filed by authorities and institutes in Beijing and Wuhan against the US state of Missouri over accusations tied to Covid-19. In a notice on Monday, the Wuhan Intermediate People’s Court said it held a hearing on Friday and legal proceedings were continuing. The case was jointly filed on April 30, 2025 by the Wuhan government in Hubei province, the Chinese Academy of Sciences and its subordinate entity, the Wuhan Institute of Virology...

A Chinese court has begun hearings in a defamation case filed by authorities and institutes in Beijing and Wuhan against the US state of Missouri over accusations tied to Covid-19. In a notice on Monday, the Wuhan Intermediate People’s Court said it held a hearing on Friday and legal proceedings were continuing. The case was jointly filed on April 30, 2025 by the Wuhan government in Hubei province, the Chinese Academy of Sciences and its subordinate entity, the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV),...
Chinese (ORG) US (LOCATION) Missouri (LOCATION) Beijing (LOCATION) Wuhan (LOCATION) the Wuhan Intermediate People’s Court (ORG) Hubei (LOCATION) the Chinese Academy of Sciences (ORG) the Wuhan Institute of Virology (ORG) WIV (ORG)
Originally published by South China Morning Post Read original →

Related Stories

Samsung's Galaxy Ring gets FDA approval for advanced sleep apnea detection

Samsung's Galaxy Ring gets FDA approval for advanced sleep apnea detection The upgraded feature uses AI to detect the number of breathing disruptions for every hour you sleep. Samsung's Galaxy Ring now offers more advanced sleep apnea detection following FDA approval of the new feature in July, the company announced. The feature may give users new clues about why they feel exhausted even after sleeping through the night.

Engadget 10m ago

Binet 'embarrassed' by cancelled appointments

Drone disruption, cancelled appointments and the new hospital. Jersey's health minister, Senator Tom Binet, was in the Hot Seat with Alison Moss.

BBC Health 25m ago

Binet 'embarrassed' by cancelled appointments

Drone disruption, cancelled appointments and the new hospital. Jersey's health minister, Senator Tom Binet, was in the Hot Seat with Alison Moss.

BBC Health Extra 25m ago

‘The output of a lunatic asylum’: what the Bloomsbury group can tell us about mental health

From Virginia Woolf’s horrifying views on eugenics to James Strachey’s seminal translations of Freud, the Bloomsbury set didn’t only experience mental illness, they shaped how society thinks about it‘As an experience,” Virginia Woolf wrote in 1930, “madness is terrific and not to be sniffed at … In its lava, I still find most of the things I write about. ”Woolf’s 1941 suicide by drowning in the River Ouse, her pockets weighted with stones, is usually framed as evidence of her tortured genius.

The Guardian UK 38m ago