F0 Covid-19 suddenly blocked the number from the Ministry of Health, how will it be handled?

When on duty, the representative of the tracing team said that about 20% of the patients (F0) did not cooperate, not to mention the cases of F1 and F2. Some people even turn off their phones when being traced and block the number of the Ministry of Health

After the Covid-19 epidemic broke out again, the Minister of Health urgently convened the Information Team to quickly respond to Covid-19 prevention and control to speed up the tracking of F1, F2.

However, when on duty, the representative of the tracing team said that about 20% of patients (F0) did not cooperate, not to mention the cases of F1 and F2. Some people, when being traced, also turn off their phones and block the numbers of the Ministry of Health and the professional team. This makes it difficult to collect epidemiological information to localize and stamp out the epidemic.

Under current law, how will uncooperative Covid-19 patients be handled?

Lawyer Dang Van Cuong, of the Hanoi Bar Association, said that in the context of the complicated development of the epidemic again, it is the responsibility of the people to make an honest and self-conscious medical declaration. Acts of delay, evading medical declaration, depending on the nature of the severity and consequences, may be administratively fined or examined for penal liability.

Citing Article 3 of the Law on Prevention and Control of Infectious Diseases in 2007, the lawyer analyzed that SARS-CoV-2 has been added to the list of group A infectious diseases (including particularly dangerous infectious diseases, high mortality rate and high mortality rate). high) from January 29, 2020.

Over the past year, authorities have propagated regulations on disease prevention and control. Therefore, everyone must know and have the obligation and responsibility to ensure the safety of the community.

According to lawyer Cuong, Article 11 of Decree No. 117/2020 of the Government stipulates that anyone who refuses or evades the application of medical isolation or coercive medical isolation measures by the authorities shall be fined. 5-10 million dong.

The act of refusing or evading the application of the decision on medical isolation or coercive medical isolation for people with group A infectious diseases shall be subject to an administrative fine of 15-20 million.

In addition, Official Dispatch No. 45 dated March 30, 2020 of the Judicial Council of the Supreme People's Court guiding the trial of a number of crimes related to Covid-19 prevention, stipulating that patients or suspected patients have been notified. If they are isolated but fail to do so, causing disease transmission to other people, they will be handled for the crime of spreading infectious diseases to people.

Lawyers believe that people who fail to make medical declarations, make incomplete medical declarations or make false declarations, causing the disease to spread to the community will be fined with the above levels or be criminally handled according to Article 240 of the Ministry of Health. In criminal law, the penalty frame can be up to 12 years in prison.

According to lawyer Cuong, there has never been a time when the situation of prevention and control of the dangerous infectious disease COVID-19 in Vietnam has been as complicated and worrisome as it is now.

According to experts, up to now, the Hai Duong epidemic core area has been basically controlled. However, a great difficulty of epidemic prevention and control is that many people from the epidemic center have spread to many provinces and cities, causing the risk of epidemic outbreaks on a large scale. Therefore, the Information Team must urgently work, detect early to prevent sources of infection.

Mr. Nguyen The Trung, Deputy Head of the Rapid Response Information Team for COVID-19 prevention and control, said: If we want to trace effectively, we use many sources of information, but it is still mainly proactive to seek and contact receive information from people's declarations.

According to Mr. Trung, people's proactive information is extremely important. From previous outbreaks, we have very effectively traced this source. However, this epidemic, although the situation is more serious, surprisingly, the percentage of people who do not cooperate and do not provide information is very large.

According to Mr. Trung, it may be because people panic, worry leading to the act of shutting down, blocking the number of the Ministry of Health or having personal information that they do not want to disclose. At this time, the Tracing Team was forced to send people to discuss directly, wasting time and human resources.

Continuously on duty, working at full capacity

Deputy Minister of Science and Technology Bui The Duy, Head of the Information Team for Rapid Response of COVID-19 Prevention and Control, assessed that the team to trace F0 had encountered many difficulties due to this complicated outbreak. record high number of positive patients. "We have worked at full capacity to successfully trace more than 100 positive cases during the past three days," said the deputy minister.

He assessed that the epidemic situation this time was very dangerous because at Poyun Company - which was identified as the epicenter of the epidemic, there were many collective events but most workers did not wear masks. Moreover, January is also the time when people often organize year-end parties and weddings, which makes the risk of disease spread very high.

Therefore, the tracing team has been continuously "on duty" in the past few days, using computer systems, telephones and using high technology to trace the source of the disease.

With the Lunar New Year approaching, at the end of the year, many people gather to meet, get married, etc. In addition to many important political events, this epidemic with a new virus strain is very dangerous and spreads. The weather at this time is very favorable for the spread of disease.

Therefore, it is required that each citizen should raise their awareness of law observance and strictly comply with regulations on disease prevention and control.

The protection of individuals must comply with the regulations on medical declaration not only to ensure their own safety but also to ensure the safety of their families, loved ones and those around them.

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