violation of epidemic prevention regulations is a crime of obstructing the prevention and treatment of infectious diseases. Penalties for violating epidemic prevention are as follows:

1. Those who spread rumors and lied about the epidemic situation shall be detained for more than five days and less than ten days, and may also be fined less than 511 yuan; If the circumstances are minor, they shall be detained for not more than five days or fined not more than five hundred yuan;

2. Whoever, in violation of state regulations, manufactures, sells, stores, transports, mails, carries, uses, provides or disposes of dangerous substances such as infectious disease pathogens shall be detained for more than 11 days and less than 15 days; If the circumstances are minor, they shall be detained for more than five days and less than ten days;

3. Those who fail to report the theft, robbery or loss of dangerous substances such as infectious disease pathogens shall be detained for less than five days; Whoever intentionally conceals or fails to report it shall be detained for more than five days and less than ten days;

4. Whoever intentionally spreads pathogens from novel coronavirus and endangers the safety of the public * * * shall be convicted of the crime of endangering the safety of the public * * by dangerous means, and shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than three years but not more than ten years if no serious consequences have been caused; Whoever causes serious injury or death to others or causes heavy losses to public or private property shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than 11 years, life imprisonment or death;

5. Whoever suffers from novel coronavirus or suspected novel coronavirus and refuses to accept quarantine, compulsory isolation or treatment, resulting in the spread of infectious diseases due to negligence, and the circumstances are serious, endangering the safety of the public * * *, shall be convicted of the crime of endangering the safety of the public in a dangerous way through negligence, and shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than three years but not more than seven years; If the circumstances are minor, they shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years or criminal detention;

6. Whoever fabricates terrorist information related to the novel coronavirus epidemic, or knowingly disseminates such terrorist information, thus seriously disrupting social order, shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years, criminal detention or public surveillance for the crime of fabricating and intentionally disseminating false information; If serious consequences are caused, they shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than three years but not more than seven years.

Legal basis: Article 331 of the Criminal Law of the People's Republic of China

The crime of obstructing the prevention and control of infectious diseases violates the provisions of the Law on the Prevention and Control of Infectious Diseases, and in any of the following circumstances, it causes the spread of Class A infectious diseases and infectious diseases whose prevention and control measures are determined according to law, or is in serious danger of spread, and 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: < P > (1) The drinking water supplied by the water supply unit does not meet the hygienic standards stipulated 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 jobs that are prohibited by the administrative department of health of the State Council and are easy to spread the infectious diseases;

(4) selling or transporting articles contaminated or possibly contaminated by infectious disease pathogens in epidemic areas without disinfection;

(5) refusing to implement the prevention and control measures proposed by the people's governments at or above the county level and the disease prevention and control institutions in accordance with the Law on the Prevention and Control of Infectious Diseases.

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 the People's Republic of China on the Prevention and Control of Infectious Diseases and the relevant regulations of the State Council.