STATE RESPONSIBILITY FOR COVID-19 IS CHINA LIABLE

Section: Articles Published Date: 2021-11-11 Pages: 151-158 Conference Proceedings Volume: Results of Modern Scientific Research and Development

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Abstract

The outbreak of Covid-19 is triggering heated debate on state responsibility of the People’s Republic of China among scholars and political leaders. In March 2020 World Health Organization declared Covid-19 a pandemic that can pose a threat to the global health.  The current research analyzes the state responsibility issues from public international law perspective. Besides the China’s accountability on a violation of 2005 International Health Regulations will be discussed in this work.

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Covid-19;, state responsibility, public international law, internationally wrongful act