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She said initially in January 2020 that there was “practically no risk” of importing Covid-19 from the Chinese city at the origin of the outbreak, Wuhan, and then said the “risk of a spread of the coronavirus among the population is very small”.
She said initially in January 2020 that there was “practically no risk” of importing Covid-19 from the Chinese city at the origin of the outbreak, Wuhan, and then said the “risk of a spread of the coronavirus among the population is very small”.
"France’s former health minister Agnes Buzyn has been charged over her handling of the
COVID-19 crisis after investigators at a special court in Paris concluded there were
grounds to prosecute her.
Buzyn has been charged with “endangering the lives of others”, the prosecutor of the
Republic’s Court of Justice said on Friday, but not for a second possible offence of
“failure to stop a disaster”.
The former doctor, who will be able to appeal the charge, arrived for a hearing at the
court saying she welcomed “an excellent opportunity for me to explain myself and to
establish the truth”.
The 58-year-old added that she would not “let the action of the government be
discredited, or my action as a minister, when we did so much to prepare our country for a
global health crisis that is still ongoing”.
The development marks one of the first cases worldwide where a leading public sector
official has been held legally accountable for the handling of the healthcare crisis."
"The charges are a blow for President Emmanuel Macron, whose handling of the health
crisis will face scrutiny during election campaigning next year, but the court also
immediately faced allegations of judicial overreach."