China committed an 'act of war' by covering up the scale of its early coronavirus outbreak for six weeks, a leading economist has claimed. Danielle DiMartino Booth, an author and chief executive, said Beijing officials were aware of the deadly disease spreading in Wuhan last November and allowed it to snowball into a global pandemic. She said Chinese officials had countless lives on their hands and should be hauled before an international court as their 'under-reporting' did not afford the rest of the world time to prepare for an onslaught. The economist points to a 'pandemic clause' in the January...