Laws involved in fighting the epidemic

The crime of endangering public safety by dangerous means, the crime of hindering the prevention and control of infectious diseases, the crime of obstructing official business, etc.

Legal Analysis

1. Those who intentionally spread the novel coronavirus pathogen and endanger public safety may be suspected of committing the crime of endangering public safety by dangerous methods. 2. Patients who have been infected or are suspected of being infected with COVID-19 should unconditionally implement the prevention and control measures proposed by the health and epidemic prevention agencies in accordance with relevant laws and regulations, and cooperate with isolation treatment. Those who refuse to cooperate may be suspected of committing the crime of obstructing the prevention and control of infectious diseases. 3. Anyone who uses violence or threats to prevent state agency staff and Red Cross staff from performing preventive and control measures such as epidemic prevention, quarantine, forced isolation, and isolation treatment in accordance with the law may be suspected of committing the crime of obstructing official business. . 4. Anyone who fabricates false or terrorist information related to the COVID-19 epidemic, or knowingly spreads such false or terrorist information knowing that it is fabricated, seriously disrupting social order, may be suspected of fabricating or intentionally spreading false terrorist information. Crime of false information.

Legal Basis

Article 115 of the Criminal Law of the People's Republic of China and the People's Republic of China: arson, flooding, explosion, and release of poisonous, radioactive, infectious pathogens, etc. Those who use substances or use other dangerous methods to cause serious injury or death or cause heavy losses to public or private property shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than ten years, life imprisonment, or death. Anyone who negligently commits the crime in the preceding paragraph shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than three years but not more than seven years; if the circumstances are relatively minor, he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years or criminal detention. Article 330 Whoever violates the provisions of the Law on the Prevention and Control of Infectious Diseases and commits any of the following circumstances, causing the spread of Class A infectious diseases and the spread of infectious diseases for which prevention and control measures for Class A infectious diseases are determined to be taken according to law, or creating a serious risk of spread, shall be punished with a three-year fine: to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years or criminal detention; if the consequences are particularly serious, he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than three years but not more than seven years: (1) The drinking water supplied by the water supply unit does not meet the health standards stipulated by the state; (2) Refusing to comply with the requirements of the disease prevention and control agency (3) Allowing or condoning infectious disease patients, pathogen carriers and suspected infectious disease patients to engage in activities prohibited by the health administrative department of the State Council. Doing work that is likely to spread the infectious disease; (4) Selling or transporting items that are or may be contaminated by infectious disease pathogens in the epidemic area without disinfection; (5) Refusing to carry out the tasks carried out by the people's government at or above the county level , prevention and control measures proposed by disease prevention and control institutions in accordance with the Law on Prevention and Control of Infectious Diseases. If a unit commits the crime in the preceding paragraph, the unit shall be fined, and the person directly in charge and other directly responsible personnel shall be punished in accordance with the provisions of the preceding paragraph. The scope of Class A infectious diseases is determined in accordance with the Law of the People's Republic of China on the Prevention and Control of Infectious Diseases and the relevant regulations of the State Council.