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Australia should decouple from China and consider asking Beijing to pay reparations for the chaos wrought by COVID-19, according to Liberal senator Concetta Fierravanti-Wells.

While the exact origins of COVID-19 is unknown, what is beyond doubt is the novel pathogen originated in the port city of Wuhan.

The disease was first widely identified in December 2019, before rapidly spreading around the world.

In just five months it has infected at least four million people, with 297,000 deaths.

Senator Fierravanti-Wells told Sky News Australia “cannot go back to business as usual” and should hold China culpable once the threat from the pandemic recedes.

“There are two things Australians are now expecting post virus, and post pandemic,” she said.

“One is: that our government has the necessary political fortitude to do those things that are in our control to do."

“That is a plan to consider reparations and a plan to decouple from China."

“Australians are expecting us to change our dealings with the communist regime in China.”