The suspect Zhang has been criminally compulsory by Baoshan police for allegedly obstructing the prevention and treatment of infectious diseases, and the case is under further investigation. Kan and related close contacts have been taken into custody or isolated for control. The police reminded that the results of epidemic prevention and control in Shanghai are hard-won, and all units and citizens have the obligation to report truthfully, cooperate with epidemic investigation, diagnosis and treatment. For those who refuse to cooperate with the investigation and deliberately conceal relevant information, resulting in the risk of epidemic spread, the public security organs will pursue legal responsibility according to law.
Article 330th of the Criminal Law of People's Republic of China (PRC), in violation of the provisions of the Law on the Prevention and Control of Infectious Diseases, shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years or criminal detention under any of the following circumstances, resulting in the spread or serious threat of Class A infectious diseases and infectious diseases whose prevention and control measures are determined according to law; If the consequences are especially serious, they shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than three years but not more than seven years:
The drinking water supplied by the water supply unit does not meet the hygienic standards prescribed by the state; Refusing to disinfect sewage, dirt, places and articles contaminated by infectious disease pathogens according to the health requirements put forward by the disease prevention and control institutions; Allowing or conniving patients with infectious diseases, pathogen carriers and suspected patients with infectious diseases to engage in the work that is easy to spread infectious diseases that is prohibited by the health administrative department of the State Council;
Selling or transporting articles contaminated or possibly contaminated by infectious disease pathogens in epidemic areas without disinfection; Refusing to implement the prevention and control measures proposed by the people's governments at or above the county level and the disease prevention and control institutions in accordance with the Law on the Prevention and Control of Infectious Diseases. If a unit commits the crime mentioned in the preceding paragraph, it shall be fined, and the directly responsible person 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 shall be determined in accordance with the Law of People's Republic of China (PRC) on the Prevention and Control of Infectious Diseases and the relevant provisions of the State Council.