China News Service, May 27. According to the WeChat public account of the Wenzhou Longgang City Court, Zhejiang Province, on the morning of May 26, the Zhejiang Wenzhou Longgang City Court held a public hearing of a case of obstructing the prevention and treatment of infectious diseases during the epidemic. The court pronounced: The defendant Huang Moumou was sentenced to 2 years in prison.
On January 21, 2020, after the defendant Huang Moumou returned from Wuhan, Hubei to his home in Yinyuan Building, Longgang City, he concealed his history of living in Wuhan, knowing that the health and epidemic prevention agency had proposed relevant prevention and control measures in accordance with the law. In fact, the prevention and control inspection of the staff was deliberately refused.
Image source: Wechat public account of Longgang City Court, Wenzhou, Zhejiang
After that, Huang Moumou went to and from hospitals, banks, commercial streets and other public places many times, and on February 16, 2020, he was diagnosed with new coronavirus pneumonia, causing more than 500 residents, more than 20 medical staff and more than 100 close contacts are quarantined.
According to the document "Announcement of the National Health and Health Commission of the People's Republic of China No. 2020 No. 1" (written on January 20, 2020), with the approval of the State Council, pneumonia caused by new coronavirus infection is included in the "Law of the People's Republic of China on the Prevention and Control of Infectious Diseases". Class B infectious diseases, and take preventive and control measures for Class A infectious diseases.
Image source: Wechat public account of Longgang City Court, Wenzhou, Zhejiang
After hearing, the Longgang Court held that the defendant Huang Moumou violated the provisions of the Law on the Prevention and Control of Infectious Diseases and refused to implement the prevention and control measures proposed by the people's governments at or above the county level and disease prevention and control institutions in accordance with the Law on the Prevention and Control of Infectious Diseases, which led to the determination of the use of Category A in accordance with the law. Infectious diseases under the prevention and control measures of infectious diseases have a serious risk of transmission, and their actions have constituted the crime of obstructing the prevention and treatment of infectious diseases. In view of the fact that the defendant Huang Moumou has confessed circumstances, and voluntarily pleaded guilty and accepted punishment, combined with other circumstances of this case, he can be given a lighter punishment according to law. The punishment was lenient, and the above judgment was made in accordance with the law.
The court reminded that the current situation of epidemic prevention and control is still severe. We hereby remind the general public that, for the health and safety of you and your family, please consciously abide by the relevant regulations on epidemic prevention and control, and cooperate with nucleic acid testing, health monitoring, isolation control, and staying at home. Office and other prevention and control measures, do not try the law, touch the legal red line, and jointly win the battle of epidemic prevention and control!