Legal basis: Article 3 of the Law of People's Republic of China (PRC) on the Prevention and Control of Infectious Diseases. Infectious diseases stipulated in this Law are classified into Class A, Class B and Class C. Class A infectious diseases refer to plague and cholera. Class B infectious diseases refer to: infectious atypical pneumonia, AIDS, viral hepatitis, polio, human infection with highly pathogenic avian influenza, measles, epidemic hemorrhagic fever, rabies, epidemic encephalitis B, dengue fever, anthrax, bacterial and amebic dysentery, tuberculosis, typhoid fever and paratyphoid fever, epidemic cerebrospinal meningitis, whooping cough, diphtheria, neonatal tetanus, scarlet fever, brucellosis, gonorrhea and syphilis. Class C infectious diseases refer to influenza, mumps, rubella, acute hemorrhagic conjunctivitis, leprosy, epidemic and endemic typhus, kala-azar, echinococcosis, filariasis, infectious diarrhea except cholera, bacterial and amebic dysentery, typhoid fever and paratyphoid fever. According to the outbreak, epidemic situation and harm degree of infectious diseases, the health administrative department of the State Council can decide to increase, decrease or adjust the diseases of Class B and Class C infectious diseases, and publish them.
Article 25 of the Law of People's Republic of China (PRC) on Public Security Administration Punishment commits one of the following acts, and shall be detained for more than five days and less than ten days, and may be fined not more than five hundred yuan; If the circumstances are relatively minor, they shall be detained for not more than five days or fined not more than 500 yuan: (1) spreading rumors, falsely reporting dangerous situations, epidemic situations or police situations or intentionally disturbing public order by other means; (two) throwing fake explosions, toxic, radioactive, corrosive substances or infectious disease pathogens and other dangerous substances to disturb public order; (3) Threatening to set fire, explode or throw dangerous substances to disturb public order.