Amid the Coronavirus crisis that the entire world is battling, an advocate filed a criminal complaint against China in the International Criminal Court. The complaint filed by advocate Ashish Suhani accused China of criminal negligence and hiding information about the outbreak.

The novel Coronavirus or COVID-19 broke out in the Chinese city of Wuhan where a rise in the number of cases was first reported on November 17, 2019. But China informed the World Health Organisation (WHO) about the infection only on December 31, 2019, it stated.