China News Service, September 1, According to official WeChat news from the Jingyang District Court of Deyang City, Sichuan, in January this year, Guo Moumou, who returned to Jingyang District of Deyang City from Wuhan, violated the regulations and gathered crowds to play mahjong.

Not only was he diagnosed as a patient with new coronary pneumonia, but also caused two people to be infected, 120 close contacts were forced to medically isolate, and the village where he was located was closed.

On the afternoon of September 1, the Jingyang District Court sentenced Guo Moumou for the crime of obstructing the prevention and control of infectious diseases and sentenced him to two years in prison.

Image source: Official WeChat of Jingyang District Court, Deyang City, Sichuan

  The court found that from February 2019 to January 2020, Guo XX worked in Lianzi Town, Huangpi District, Wuhan City. On January 22, 2020, Guo XX returned to Huangxu Town, Deyang from Wuhan.

At 10:00 on January 23, Wuhan was closed, and epidemic prevention and control measures were successively introduced across the country to deploy prevention and control work.

  On January 23, the Leading Group of the Joint Prevention and Control Mechanism for the Joint Prevention and Control Mechanism of Novel Coronavirus Infection in Jingyang District issued an emergency notice request: All towns (sub-districts) must conduct a comprehensive investigation of returnees from Wuhan, establish accounts one by one, and organize personnel to follow up , Follow-up, requiring returnees to stay home for 14 days (counting from the day they leave Wuhan) without going out, visiting, or visiting relatives and friends to reduce the risk of transmission.

On the same day, the Party Committee of Huangxu Town, Jingyang District immediately convened a meeting to convey the above spirit and asked the secretary of the village (residential) Party branch to take immediate prevention and control measures against the new pneumonia epidemic. The village secretary of Hongshan Village, Huangxu Town immediately arranged for each village group leader to report to Wuhan. The township personnel also communicated corresponding prevention and control measures.

  On January 24, Guo XX went to the village health station to check his body temperature. The village secretary came to the scene and conveyed the prevention and control measures proposed by the health and epidemic prevention agency in accordance with the Infectious Disease Prevention and Control Law to all the people on the scene, including Guo XX. The returnees from Wuhan are required not to go out.

  On January 25, Guo Moumou went out to play mahjong in the village mahjong hall. The next day, he developed fever and cough and other clinical symptoms. Guo Moumou was diagnosed as a patient with new coronary pneumonia on January 28.

  On January 31, Lai, who was playing cards with Guo, was diagnosed as a patient with new coronary pneumonia. On February 2, Zhu, a village doctor who had contact with Guo, was diagnosed with a patient with new coronary pneumonia. More than 120 villagers in close contact with XX were forced to undergo medical isolation, and Hongshan Village and Jinping Village were forced to implement closed management.

  On January 28, 2020, the preliminary conclusion of the investigation report of the Deyang Center for Disease Control and Prevention: Guo Moumou returned to Deyang on the afternoon of the 22nd, and had fever on the 26th. The onset time was January 28th. Zhu Moumou was the first to contact Guo. XX was on the 24th and the onset time was 30 days. Lai’s earliest contact with Guo XX was on the 25th and the onset time was 31 days. The rest of the community-managed returnees from other places had no fever.

Combined with the incubation period of the disease, consider Guo Moumou as the first imported case.

Lai XX and Zhu XX are second-generation cases.

  The People’s Court of Jingyang District held that the defendant Guo Moumou, in accordance with the prevention and control measures proposed by the health and epidemic prevention agency in accordance with the Infectious Disease Prevention and Control Law, required the defendant Guo to stay at home. In accordance with the prevention and control measures proposed by the Infectious Disease Prevention and Control Law, after the agency was diagnosed as the first imported case, it spread two second-generation cases, causing a total of 120 close contacts to be isolated for medical observation and other serious consequences.

The Jingyang District Court sentenced Guo Moumou for the crime of obstructing the prevention and control of infectious diseases and sentenced him to two years in prison.