Legal basis:_"The Law of the People's Republic of China on the Prevention and Control of Infectious Diseases"
Article 39 When a medical institution discovers an infectious disease of category A, it shall take the following measures in a timely manner:
(1) isolate and treat the patients and carriers of the pathogen for a period of time to be determined in accordance with the results of the medical examination;
(2) isolate and treat the suspected patients in a designated (c) patients, carriers of pathogens, close contacts of suspected patients in medical institutions, medical observation and other necessary preventive measures in designated places
Refusal of isolation treatment or isolation period has not expired without unauthorized release from isolation treatment, the public security organs can assist the medical institutions to take compulsory isolation treatment measures.
Medical institutions to find patients with infectious diseases of category B or C, should be based on the condition of the necessary treatment and control of transmission measures. Medical institutions of the unit contaminated by infectious disease pathogens in the premises, objects and medical waste, must be implemented in accordance with the provisions of laws and regulations of disinfection and harmless disposal.
Article 40 When a disease prevention and control organization discovers an outbreak of an infectious disease or receives a report of an infectious disease outbreak, it shall take the following measures in a timely manner:
(1) Conduct epidemiological investigations into the outbreak of an infectious disease, and based on the investigations, make recommendations for delineation of infected spots and infected areas, and carry out sanitary treatment of the contaminated premises, and conduct medical observation and take other necessary preventive measures for the closely-contacted in the designated places, and report to the public on the results. Other necessary preventive measures, and put forward to the health administrative department of the epidemic control program;
(b) infectious disease outbreaks, epidemics, infected sites, infected areas of sanitary treatment, put forward to the health administrative department of the epidemic control program, and in accordance with the requirements of the administrative department of health to take measures;
(c) guiding the lower level of disease prevention and control agencies to implement preventive and control measures for infectious diseases, organization and guidance of the relevant units of the infectious disease prevention and control measures, organization and control measures. and guiding the relevant units in the handling of infectious disease outbreaks.
Article 41 The local people's government at or above the county level of the place where a case of Category A infectious disease has occurred or the people in a specific area within the place may implement isolation measures and report to the people's government at the upper level at the same time; the people's government at the higher level which receives the report shall make a decision on whether or not to authorize it immediately. If the people's government at the higher level makes a decision not to approve, the people's government implementing the isolation measures shall immediately lift the isolation measures.
During the period of isolation, the people's government implementing the isolation measures shall provide livelihood security for the isolated person; if the isolated person has a work unit, the unit in which he or she is working shall not cease to pay him or her remuneration for the work done during the period of isolation.
The lifting of the isolation measure shall be decided and announced by the original deciding authority.