What are the main laws and regulations for epidemic prevention and control?

1. What are the main laws on epidemic prevention and control?

People's Republic of China (PRC) Infectious Disease Prevention Law, People's Republic of China (PRC) Emergency Response Law, People's Republic of China (PRC) Frontier Health and Quarantine Law, People's Republic of China (PRC) Animal Epidemic Prevention Law, People's Republic of China (PRC) Food Safety Law and People's Republic of China (PRC) Public Security Administration Punishment Law.

Law of People's Republic of China (PRC) on the Prevention and Control of Infectious Diseases

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Infectious diseases stipulated in this Law are classified into Class A, Class B and Class C. Class A infectious diseases refer to plague and cholera. Class B infectious diseases refer to: infectious atypical pneumonia, AIDS, viral hepatitis, polio, human infection with highly pathogenic avian influenza, measles, epidemic hemorrhagic fever, rabies, epidemic encephalitis B, dengue fever, anthrax, bacterial and amebic dysentery, tuberculosis, typhoid fever and paratyphoid fever, epidemic cerebrospinal meningitis, whooping cough, diphtheria, neonatal tetanus, scarlet fever, brucellosis, gonorrhea and syphilis. Class C infectious diseases refer to influenza, mumps, rubella, acute hemorrhagic conjunctivitis, leprosy, epidemic and endemic typhus, kala-azar, echinococcosis, filariasis, infectious diarrhea except cholera, bacterial and amebic dysentery, typhoid fever and paratyphoid fever. According to the outbreak, epidemic situation and degree of harm of infectious diseases, the health administrative department of the State Council can decide to increase, decrease or adjust the diseases of Class B and Class C infectious diseases and publish them.

People's Republic of China (PRC) Emergency Response Law

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This Law is formulated in order to prevent and reduce the occurrence of emergencies, control, mitigate and eliminate the serious social harm caused by emergencies, standardize emergency response activities, protect the safety of people's lives and property, and safeguard national security, public security, environmental security and social order.

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This Law is applicable to emergency prevention and emergency preparedness, monitoring and early warning, emergency disposal and rescue, and post-event recovery and reconstruction.

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Emergencies mentioned in this Law refer to natural disasters, accidents, public health incidents and social security incidents that occur suddenly and cause or may cause serious social harm and require emergency measures. Natural disasters, accidents and public health incidents are classified into four grades according to factors such as the degree of social harm and the scope of influence. Where laws, administrative regulations or the State Council have other provisions, such provisions shall prevail. The grading standards for emergencies shall be formulated by the departments determined by the State Council or the State Council.

People's Republic of China (PRC) Frontier Health and Quarantine Law

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This law is formulated in order to prevent infectious diseases from being introduced from abroad or coming out from home, to carry out frontier health quarantine and to protect human health.

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People's Republic of China (PRC) has established frontier health and quarantine offices at ports and airports open to international navigation, as well as land borders and river ports (hereinafter referred to as frontier ports) to carry out quarantine, monitoring and health supervision of infectious diseases in accordance with the provisions of this Law.

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Infectious diseases mentioned in this law refer to quarantine infectious diseases and surveillance infectious diseases. Quarantine infectious diseases refer to plague, cholera, yellow fever and other infectious diseases identified and published in the State Council. Surveillance of infectious diseases is determined and published by the health administrative department of the State Council.

People's Republic of China (PRC) Public Security Administration Punishment Law

Article 25

One of the following acts shall be detained for more than five days and less than ten days, and may be fined up to five hundred yuan; If the circumstances are relatively minor, they shall be detained for not more than five days or fined not more than 500 yuan: (1) spreading rumors, falsely reporting dangerous situations, epidemic situations or police situations or intentionally disturbing public order by other means; (2) Disrupting public order by throwing dangerous substances such as fake explosive, toxic, radioactive and corrosive substances or infectious disease pathogens; (3) Threatening to set fire, explode or throw dangerous substances to disturb public order.

People's Republic of China (PRC) Animal Epidemic Prevention Law

Article 12

Veterinary authorities in the State Council conduct risk assessment on animal epidemic situation, and formulate corresponding prevention and control measures for animal epidemic situation according to the assessment results. According to the situation of animal epidemic at home and abroad and the need to protect the production of aquaculture and human health, the veterinary authorities in the State Council formulated and published the technical specifications for the prevention and control of animal epidemic in a timely manner.

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The state enforces compulsory immunization against animal diseases that seriously endanger aquaculture production and human health. The veterinary administrative department of the State Council shall, jointly with the relevant departments of the State Council, determine the diseases and areas of animal diseases that are subject to compulsory immunization, and formulate the national compulsory immunization plan for animal diseases. The veterinary administrative departments of the people's governments of provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government shall, according to the national compulsory immunization plan for animal diseases, formulate compulsory immunization plans for their respective administrative regions; According to the epidemic situation of animal diseases within their respective administrative areas, the types and areas of animal diseases for compulsory immunization can be increased, which will be implemented after being approved by the people's government at the corresponding level and reported to the veterinary authorities in the State Council for the record.

2. What laws and regulations are there for epidemic prevention and control?

Measures for the Implementation of the Law on the Prevention and Control of Infectious Diseases in People's Republic of China (PRC)

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The state implements the policy of giving priority to prevention of infectious diseases. When making social and economic development plans, governments at all levels must incorporate the prevention and control objectives of infectious diseases into them and organize relevant departments to jointly implement them.

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The health administrative departments of governments at all levels shall exercise unified supervision and management over the prevention and control of infectious diseases. The health authorities of other relevant departments entrusted by the health administrative department of the State Council shall exercise the functions and powers listed in the first paragraph of Article 32 of the Law on the Prevention and Control of Infectious Diseases within this system. The prevention and control of infectious diseases in the army shall be supervised and managed by the competent health department of China People's Liberation Army in accordance with the Law on the Prevention and Control of Infectious Diseases, these Measures and other relevant provisions of the state.

Emergency regulations on public health emergencies

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In order to effectively prevent, timely control and eliminate the hazards of public health emergencies, safeguard public health and life safety, and maintain normal social order, these Regulations are formulated.

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The public health emergencies mentioned in these Regulations (hereinafter referred to as emergencies) refer to sudden major infectious diseases, group diseases with unknown causes, major food and occupational poisoning and other events that seriously affect public health.