According to the guideline, people refusing the health checks or falsifying health statement cards while entering China will be identified as committing the crime of disturbing frontier health and quarantine.
The guidelines communicated during the press conference outline additional instances that would identify people as high-risk illegal trespassers at the border:
1. People refusing health checks or quarantine orders from customs;
2. Travelers who provide misleading or false information concerning their health on their health immigration card upon arrival;
3. Anyone found in any mode of transport who may be infected by the virus and attempting to cross the border, and refusing health quarantine or sanitization;
4. Drivers of any mode of transport coming from a country or region deemed high risk who intentionally hides this information from authorities in order to cross the border.
Any such individual will face severe criminal charges under Chinese law of three years in prison or detention, as well as considerable fines on top of their sentence if it is found that they were responsible for spreading the disease even further.
As mentioned and reinforced in many of our previous articles, we have to work together to ensure everyone abides by the laws and regulations put in place, all of which are implemented for the good of our communities and the country as a whole.
