Can I eat during the epidemic?

The treatment of dinner during the epidemic period is: the epidemic prevention and control staff of village committees or neighborhood committees persuade them to return, and if the circumstances are serious, the public security organs may impose administrative detention and fines on them. If a patient diagnosed in COVID-19 refuses to be isolated and attends a dinner party, he will be investigated for criminal responsibility for endangering public safety by dangerous means.

legal ground

Article 42 of the Law on the Prevention and Control of Infectious Diseases: When an infectious disease breaks out or is prevalent, the local people's government at or above the county level shall immediately organize forces to carry out prevention and control according to the prevention and control plan and cut off the transmission route of the infectious disease. When necessary, the following emergency measures can be taken and reported to the people's government at the next higher level for announcement: (1) restricting or stopping fairs, theatrical performances or other crowd gathering activities; (2) suspension of work, business or classes; (three) closed or sealed public drinking water sources, food and related items contaminated by infectious disease pathogens; (4) controlling or culling wild animals, domestic animals and poultry infected with the epidemic; (five) closed places that may cause the spread of infectious diseases. When the people's government at a higher level receives the report of the people's government at a lower level on taking the emergency measures listed in the preceding paragraph, it shall make a decision immediately. The lifting of emergency measures shall be decided and announced by the original decision-making organ.