Nigerian lawyers sue China for $200 billion over coronavirus damage

The lawyers established a two-phase action plan, as they will first go to the federal high court of Nigeria and, second, to persuade the government of the Federal Republic of Nigeria to institute a state action against the People's Republic of China at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) at the Hague. ***** Previously, an Egyptian lawyer has pressed charges against Chinese President Xi Jinping, calling on his country to pay $10 trillion in damages caused by the novel coronavirus in Egypt.

Also, last week, the U.S. state of Missouri filed a lawsuit against the Chinese government over the coronavirus, alleging that the nation's officials are to blame for the global pandemic.

28 Apr: 7 News Australia: Australian CSIRO in Geelong linked to coronavirus ‘bat laboratory’ theory
by Kelly Burke
The theory that coronavirus was accidentally unleashed from a Chinese laboratory is gaining momentum, as the Australian government maintains pressure on allies to launch an investigation into its origins.
Now there is a direct Australian link.
News emerged overnight that the Five Eyes intelligence agencies - comprising Australia, the US, Canada, UK and New Zealand - are investigating two Chinese scientists who previously worked on bat research in a CSIRO laboratory in Geelong.
Shi Zhengli and Zhou Peng are senior researchers specialising in studying emerging viruses of wildlife origin, specifically in bats and rodents, at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in the central China province of Hubei...

Australian link
Shi spent three months in 2006 as a visiting scientist at the CSIRO’s Australian Centre for Disease Preparedness laboratory, a high-containment facility, in Geelong in Victoria.
She conducted research in links between the SARS virus and bats.
Her colleague Zhou completed his doctorate at the same facility between 2011 and 2014.
Both placements were jointly funded by the Australian and Chinese governments...

CSIRO responds
A spokesman for the CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation) confirmed both Shi and Zhou conducted research into bat viruses in Geelong, at its high biocontainment Australian Centre for Disease Preparedness (ACDP) facility.
“CSIRO undertakes all research in accordance with strict biosecurity and legislative requirements,” the CSIRO said in a statement.

“While there is no current research on bats at ACDP, research into bats underpins much of our understanding of zoonotic (those passed from animals to humans) diseases.
“CSIRO’s collaborations with research organisations from many countries around the world are helping drive global effort forwards to human diseases prevention and management.
“As with all partners, CSIRO undertakes due diligence and takes security very seriously.”...

News of the developments comes as the relationship between the two countries continues to sour.
(Prime Minister Scott) Morrison cabinet ministers continue to call for an independent investigation into Wuhan as the epicentre of what is now a global pandemic
Australia’s trade minister, Simon Birmingham, said on Tuesday Australia “won’t give in to coercion” after China threatened to withdraw support from the nation’s major wine and beef export industries.
China’s ambassador to Australia, Cheng Jingye, has also threatened to boycott Australian education and tourism - a threat Birmingham described as “inappropriate”.
“Australia’s position is very clear that we believe it is entirely reasonable ... for there to be a genuine inquiry and investigation into the cause of the loss of life of hundreds of thousands of people around the world,” Birmingham told the ABC on Tuesday.
https://7news.com.au/news/world/australian-csiro-in-geelong-linked-to-coronavirus-bat-laboratory-theory—c-1002195

just remembered Facebook consulted Geelong (Australia) scientist, Dr. Danielle Anderson about the Steven Mosher artice on Wuhan lab in NY Post.

17 Apr: NY Post: Facebook’s ‘fact checkers’ are the real fake news after censoring Post story
by Post editorial board
Way back on Feb. 23, The Post ran an opinion piece by Steven Mosher saying that we couldn’t trust China’s story about the origins of COVID-19. He argued that the virus might — might — have jumped to the human population thanks to errors at a Chinese laboratory in Wuhan, rather than via that city’s now-notorious “wet market.”
The piece was widely read online — until Facebook stepped in...

And who did this fact checker rely on for their opinion? As reporter Sharyl Attkisson notes, one expert consulted had a clear conflict of interest: She has regularly worked with Wuhan’s researchers, and even done her own experiments there. Danielle E. Anderson, assistant professor, Duke-NUS Medical School in Singapore, personally attested to the lab’s “strict control and containment measures.”...

The New York Post has asked for weeks to get Facebook to un-block the Mosher article. On Friday, the social network finally did so, though without acknowledging that it had been wrong all along...
https://nypost.com/2020/04/17/facebook-fact-checkers-foul-again-after-censoring-post-story/

Peta Credlin, who is from Geelong, mentions where Anderson comes from at the beginning of the interview:

VIDEO: 30 Mar: Sky News Australia: Explainer: Your coronavirus questions answered
Duke-NUS Medical School Professor Dr Danielle Anderson has addressed a variety of questions sent in by viewers relating to the deadly coronavirus pandemic with Sky News host Peta Credlin.
https://www.skynews.com.au/details/_6145665765001

from CSIRO publications online, Anderson apparently worked with CSIRO’s Australian Animal Health Laboratory (AAHL) in Geelong before moving overseas to Singapore and also, from her own account, to the Wuhan lab.

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