Villalta-Puig, G. (Gonzalo)Cocchini, A. (Andrea)2024-02-092024-02-092022Cocchini, A. (Andrea); Villalta-Puig, G. (Gonzalo). "Due diligence in pandemic: state accountability for Covid-19 under international law". Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies. 29 (2), 2022, 1 - 251543-0367https://hdl.handle.net/10171/68967In a press conference in February 2020, the Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said, almost prophetically: "a virus is more powerful in creating political, economic and social upheaval than any terrorist attack."1 He went on to describe the novel coronavirus first identified in the city of Wuhan-Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)-as "public enemy number one" for the world.2 Only a month later, with more than 4,000 deaths on record and in reaction to "the alarming levels of inaction" 4 everywhere, the WHO classified the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) as a pandemic, thus formally recognising the uncontrolled spread of the virus all over the world.enginfo:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccessCovid-19International LawDue DiligenceNo-Harminfo:eu-repo/semantics/article