How did the authorities respond to the report of an infected person being leaked in COVID-19, Ningxia?

On the morning of May 10, Ningxia Internet Police patrol law enforcement responded through the official Weibo that "the relevant departments will handle it and the situation cannot be made public for the time being".

In response to the report of the boiling point video on May 9, Ningxia CDC responded that it would synchronize the flow report to multiple relevant departments. At present, it is not clear in which link it was leaked. The source of the leak is being traced and the relevant personnel are dealing with it.

The newspaper noted that the information spread on the Internet includes the names of patients and their relatives, ID numbers, home addresses and detailed travel records.

The legal responsibility of privately spreading and forwarding the personal information of the transmitted case;

In view of the fact that the personal information of the case was leaked and circulated, Ding Jinkun of Shanghai Dabang Law Firm analyzed in an interview with the newspaper that the epidemic prevention and control unit must follow the principle of necessity and only need it for the public interest.

Under normal circumstances, the epidemic prevention and control unit can announce the patient's place of residence and the places he has been to, so as to remind the relevant personnel in the above places to do a good job in epidemic prevention, but shall not publish other personal information unrelated to epidemic prevention; Under special circumstances, such as finding and tracking patients, more specific personal information can be released to safeguard public interests.

Ding Jinkun analyzed that it is a civil tort to spread and distribute personal information such as the name of the case and the photo of the ID number, causing troubles. The disseminator must bear civil liability, such as stopping the infringement, apologizing, compensating for the loss, restoring the influence, etc. According to Article 42 of the Law on Public Security Administration Punishment, public security punishment should be given.