The Chinese government has issued a new regulation to combat the corona virus, which will include imprisonment or the death of violators.

The National Health Commission, the Supreme People's Court, the Supreme People's Procuracy and the Chinese Ministry of Public Security today released a joint statement on seven health-related crimes to severely punish those who obstruct disease control work.

According to the statement, Chinese authorities will speed up the approval of arrest warrants, prosecutions and trials of those who violate disease prevention and control regulations, in the context of acute pneumonia. New strain of corona virus (nCoV) is at "critical stage".

Violations are regulated including insults, threats, assaults, assassination of health workers or tearing of protective gear and spitting on health workers, which can expose them to nCoV.

Committing violent acts, threatening to refuse medical examinations, quarantine and medical treatment or obstructing medical establishments in destroying corpses of people infected with infectious diseases under law. punished.

The new regulation also targets acts of vandalizing or misappropriating health facilities, causing interference with health authorities, leaving dead bodies illegally or conducting funerals without permission. , disrupting and obstructing epidemic prevention and control activities.

The notice said the death penalty could be applied to some serious violations of these rules.

Drastic measures are being taken by the Chinese government to cope with the nCoV acute pneumonia outbreak in Wuhan, Hubei province, in December 2019.

China has blocked Wuhan and many other cities, but it has not yet been able to control the outbreak. The epidemic has now spread to 26 countries and territories around the world, leaving at least 724 people dead and more than 34,000 infected.