Putin signed a law on criminal liability failure to comply with quarantine

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President Vladimir Putin signed a law on criminal responsibility for violation of the quarantine. The corresponding document was published on the official portal of legal information.

In accordance with the new law, the punishment for violation of sanitary-epidemiological rules which entailed by negligence mass disease of people, a fine of 500 thousand to 1 million rubles.

in addition, provides for the deprivation of the right to occupy certain positions or engage in certain activities for a term up to 3 years or deprivation of liberty for a term up to 3 years.

In that case, if the violation of the quarantine entailed on imprudence death of the person, combined with the deliberate creation of a threat of mass disease and poisoning of people, will be punished with a fine from 1 to 2 million rubles. This paragraph provides for the deprivation of the right to work in certain professions for up to 5 years or imprisonment for up to 5 years.

everything else, when non-observance sanitary-epidemiological rules will result in the death of two and more persons, it is necessary to punish imprisonment for the term up to 7 years.

on March 25 during his address to the Russians, Putin said that the period from 30 March to 3 April stops working with pay. This decision was taken to prevent the threat of rapid spread COVID-19 in the country.

Recently, the mayor of Moscow Sergei Sobyanin said that about 20% of the capital ignored the calls for a regime of isolation. In connection with the March 30, there are additional measures that prescribe to switch to home mode all Muscovites. We are talking about the citizens, regardless of age.

At present the specialists are developing the vaccine. In particular, the project involves scientists of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

In Russia, 2777 recorded cases of coronavirus in 75 regions. Per day discharged by recovery 69 people, 45 of them in Moscow.

Earlier it became known that the Moscow city Duma approved fines for violation of the regime of self-isolation.

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