Legal basis: Article 68 of the Law of People's Republic of China (PRC) on the Prevention and Control of Infectious Diseases. If a disease prevention and control institution violates the provisions of this law and has any of the following circumstances, the health administrative department of the people's government at or above the county level shall order it to make corrections within a time limit, and informed criticism shall give it a warning; The responsible person in charge and other directly responsible personnel shall be given demotion, dismissal and dismissal according to law, and the practice certificate of the relevant responsible personnel may be revoked according to law; If the case constitutes a crime, criminal responsibility shall be investigated according to law:
(a) failing to perform the duties of monitoring infectious diseases according to law;
(2) Failing to perform the duties of reporting and informing the epidemic situation of infectious diseases according to law, or concealing, falsely reporting or delaying reporting the epidemic situation of infectious diseases;
(3) Failing to actively collect epidemic information of infectious diseases, or failing to timely analyze, investigate, verify and report epidemic information of infectious diseases;
(4) Failing to take the measures prescribed in this Law in time in accordance with their duties when discovering the epidemic situation of infectious diseases;
(5) Deliberately disclosing personal privacy-related information and materials of patients with infectious diseases, pathogen carriers, suspected patients with infectious diseases and their close contacts.