Those affected by Corona are demanding compensation from the World Health Organization and China

Hundreds of people who have contracted the coronavirus in Mexico and other countries have demanded financial compensation from the World Health Organization and China, but without much hope of winning the case.

Retired Jaime Michos, 63, joined the campaign launched by an Argentine law firm that dreams that the World Health Organization and Beijing will pay tens of thousands of dollars in compensation to families affected by the epidemic that began two years ago in the Chinese city of Wuhan.

The chances of the lawsuit being successful are slim, but it was not easy for Michaus, whose daughter died of Covid on July 23 at the age of 25, leaving a daughter of hers a few months old.

"I have mixed feelings because it looks like I want to profit from my daughter's death," the grieving father told AFP, adding that the chance of winning the case does not exceed 50 percent.

"Any money will not return my daughter to me but I am doing it for my granddaughter's future," he added.

The Buenos Aires law firm's initiative is also joined by a worker at a gas station in Mexico, which is suffering from the effects of post-Covid-19.

"I am 35 years old. I have ringing in my ears and my eyes are blurred and I have to use glasses," she said, asking not to be named.

"Have you been or are you currently infected or one of your relatives has contracted COVID-19? You deserve compensation. File a complaint with us," Poplavsky's law firm says on its website.

He asserts that he represents "virtually a thousand victims in Argentina, the United States, Ecuador, Spain and Italy."

He promised his clients economic compensation of "two hundred thousand dollars if he fell ill, and the effects were large, and 800 thousand dollars for death," said lawyer Dennis Gonzalez, a representative of the law firm in Mexico, told AFP.

The office confirms that it does not ask for any fees from its clients, explaining that it will cover its fees from a percentage cut from the default compensation.

The international law firm "Poblavsky" confirms that it submits requests for compensation to "the United Nations and the International Criminal Court against the People's Republic of China and the World Health Organization for misdemeanour violations of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights."

He explains that the process can take at least five years.

"People know it won't work," says Marlec Rios Nava, an expert in international law at the Autonomous University of Mexico, explaining that the United Nations deals with complaints from states, not individuals.

Two years after the appearance of the first infections, the World Health Organization denies that it was late at the beginning of the epidemic in declaring a state of “public health emergency on an international scale” on January 30, 2020, and then a state of epidemic on March 11 of the same year.

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