; and (B) is, at minimum, grossly negligent behavior causing significant injury. (b) Purpose The purpose of this Act is to provide civil litigants with the broadest possible basis, consistent with the Constitution of the United States, to seek relief against persons, entities, and foreign countries, wherever acting and wherever they may be found, that are responsible for, or complicit in ordering, controlling, or otherwise directing acts intended to deliberately conceal or distort the existence or nature of COVID–19, if such acts are found to have likely contributed to the global COVID–19 pandemic. 3. Definition In this Act, the term COVID–19 means the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID–19). 4. Responsibility of foreign states for deliberate concealment or distorting information about international public health emergencies (a) In general Chapter 97 of title 28, United States Code, is amended by inserting after section 1605B the following new section: 1605C. Responsibility of foreign states for deliberate concealment or distorting information about international public health emergencies of international concern (a) Responsibility of foreign state A foreign state shall not be immune from the jurisdiction of the courts of the United States in any case in which money damages are sought against a foreign state for physical injury or death, or injury to property or economic interests, occurring in the United States and caused by— (1) the spread of COVID–19