Xinhua News Agency, Hefei, May 27th (Reporter Zhang Ziyun) The People’s Court of Huaiyuan County, Bengbu City, Anhui Province recently opened a court session to hear a case of obstructing the prevention and control of infectious diseases and sentenced the defendant Yang Moumou to one year and six months’ imprisonment, suspended Two years.
The defendant expressed his obedience to the court's decision in court and did not appeal.
The court found that from January 13, 2020 to February 7, 2020, after Yang XX was diagnosed with new coronary pneumonia, the medical staff of Huaiyuan County People’s Hospital asked Yang XX several times whether he had had any contact with someone from the area where the epidemic occurred. Contact history, but Yang deliberately concealed his contact history with his daughter's family who returned from Wuhan, resulting in the isolation of 27 medical staff and 61 patients in the Huaiyuan County People’s Hospital.
The Huaiyuan County People's Court found that Yang's behavior constituted a crime of obstructing the prevention and control of infectious diseases, and because he voluntarily pleaded guilty and pleaded guilty, he could be given a lighter punishment and made the above-mentioned sentence.