Deliberately concealing the epidemic situation and failing to report it, resulting in serious consequences that need to be punished according to the crime of endangering public security, and seriously disrupting social order, criminal responsibility can be investigated and the possible punishment for concealing the epidemic situation can be: warning by the public security organ or a fine of not more than 200 yuan; If the circumstances are serious, they shall be detained for more than five days and less than ten days, and may be fined up to five hundred yuan; Those who constitute the crime of obstructing the prevention and treatment of infectious diseases are generally sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years or criminal detention.
What are the legal consequences of deliberately fabricating and deliberately spreading false epidemic information?
Whoever fabricates or intentionally spreads false terrorist information, which seriously disturbs social order and constitutes other crimes, shall be punished as a felony. The term "false terrorist information" as mentioned in this interpretation refers to untrue information that may cause social panic or public security crisis, and seriously threaten public security such as explosion threat, biochemical threat, radiation threat, aircraft hijacking threat, major disaster and major epidemic situation. Whoever conceals the epidemic situation and causes serious consequences may be investigated for criminal responsibility and may be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of up to seven years. Under normal circumstances, it will be punished according to the crime of endangering public safety. For the epidemic, whether it is deliberately concealing or maliciously spreading, it is illegal and criminal.
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Legal basis: Article 50 of People's Republic of China (PRC) Public Security Administration Punishment Law.
One of the following acts, a warning or a fine of two hundred yuan; If the circumstances are serious, they shall be detained for more than five days and less than ten days, and may be fined up to five hundred yuan:
(a) refusing to implement the decisions and orders issued by the people's government in an emergency;
(two) hinder the staff of state organs to perform their duties according to law;
(3) obstructing the passage of fire engines, ambulances, engineering rescue vehicles, police cars and other vehicles performing emergency tasks;
(four) forcibly broke into the warning tape and the warning zone set up by the public security organs.