1. Concealing novel coronavirus's alleged crime of obstructing the prevention and treatment of infectious diseases should generally be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years or criminal detention.
2. As a patient who has been infected or suspected of novel coronavirus, it is necessary to unconditionally implement the prevention and control measures proposed by the health and epidemic prevention institutions according to the Law on the Prevention and Control of Infectious Diseases, and cooperate with isolation treatment. If you refuse to cooperate, you may commit the crime of obstructing the prevention and treatment of infectious diseases, with a maximum sentence of seven years.
3. Legal basis:
Article 330 of the Criminal Law stipulates that whoever violates the provisions of the Law on the Prevention and Control of Infectious Diseases and causes the spread of Class A infectious diseases and infectious diseases for which prevention and control measures have been taken according to law under any of the following circumstances shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years or criminal detention. 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:
(a) the drinking water supplied by the water supply unit does not meet the hygienic standards prescribed by the state;
(2) refusing to disinfect sewage, dirt, places and articles contaminated by infectious disease pathogens according to the hygiene requirements put forward by the disease prevention and control institutions;
(3) allowing or conniving patients with infectious diseases, pathogen carriers and suspected patients with infectious diseases to engage in the work that is prohibited by the administrative department of health of the State Council and is easy to spread the infectious diseases;
(4) Selling or transporting articles contaminated or possibly contaminated by infectious disease pathogens in epidemic areas without disinfection;
(five) refusing to implement the prevention and control measures put forward by the people's governments at or above the county level and the disease prevention and control institutions according to law. "
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.
Second, how to punish the epidemic?
Whoever knowingly spreads "novel coronavirus" and endangers public safety, even if there are no serious consequences, still constitutes the crime of endangering public safety by dangerous means, and shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than three years but not more than ten years.
If you mistakenly believe that you are not infected with the virus, subjectively, you don't intentionally spread infectious diseases, but you don't obey the government's control, which constitutes a crime of endangering public safety by dangerous means.
If the patient does not cooperate with isolation treatment and refuses to implement measures to prevent and control infectious diseases, and his behavior is suspected to constitute a crime of obstructing the prevention and control of infectious diseases, he may be investigated for criminal responsibility.
According to the provisions of Article 330 of the Criminal Law, whoever violates the provisions of the Law on the Prevention and Control of Infectious Diseases and refuses to implement the prevention and control measures put forward by the health and epidemic prevention institutions in accordance with the Law on the Prevention and Control of Infectious Diseases, thus causing the spread or serious danger of the spread of Class A infectious diseases, shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years or criminal detention; 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.
Any staff member of the health administrative department of the government who is engaged in the prevention and control of infectious diseases fails to prevent, control or prevent as required, takes improper control measures, conceals information, or fails to implement the decisions and orders of the emergency response headquarters, thus causing the spread of "novel coronavirus" to expand or aggravate the epidemic situation and disaster situation, he shall be convicted and punished for dereliction of duty in the prevention and control of infectious diseases according to the provisions of Article 409 of the Criminal Law of our country, and shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years or criminal detention.
If the circumstances are particularly serious, resulting in heavy losses to public property and the interests of the state and the people, criminal responsibility may be investigated for dereliction of duty according to the provisions of Article 397 of the Criminal Law, and the maximum penalty may be fixed-term imprisonment of not more than seven years.
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