Legal basis: People's Republic of China (PRC) Law on the Prevention and Control of Infectious Diseases.
Article 30 When disease prevention and control institutions, medical institutions, blood collection and blood supply institutions and their personnel performing their duties discover the epidemic situation of infectious diseases or other infectious diseases with outbreaks, epidemics and unknown causes as stipulated in this Law, they shall follow the principle of territorial management of epidemic situation reporting and report according to the contents, procedures, methods and time limits as stipulated by the health administrative department of the State Council or the State Council. When military medical institutions provide medical services to the public, they shall report the epidemic situation of infectious diseases specified in the preceding paragraph in accordance with the provisions of the administrative department of health of the State Council.
Thirty-first any unit or individual shall report to the nearby disease prevention and control institutions or medical institutions in a timely manner when discovering patients with infectious diseases or suspected infectious diseases.
Article 32 When port, airport, railway disease prevention and control institutions and frontier health and quarantine organs find patients with Class A infectious diseases, pathogen carriers and suspected infectious diseases, they shall immediately report to the disease prevention and control institutions where the frontier port is located or the health administrative department of the local people's government at or above the county level, and notify each other.
Thirty-third disease prevention and control institutions should take the initiative to collect, analyze, investigate and verify the epidemic information of infectious diseases. Upon receiving the epidemic report of Class A and Class B infectious diseases or discovering the outbreak and epidemic of infectious diseases, it shall immediately report to the local health administrative department, which shall immediately report to the local people's government and report to the health administrative department at the next higher level and the health administrative department of the State Council. Disease prevention and control institutions shall set up or designate special departments and personnel to be responsible for information management of infectious diseases, and timely verify and analyze epidemic reports.
Article 34 The health administrative department of the local people's government at or above the county level shall timely notify the disease prevention and control institutions and medical institutions within their respective administrative areas of the epidemic situation of infectious diseases and relevant monitoring and early warning information. The disease prevention and control institutions and medical institutions that have received the notice shall promptly notify the relevant personnel of the unit.