2009-05-23

Migrant Worker Receives Administrative Detention for Falsely Reporting Swine Flu

一男子谎称患甲型H1N1流感被拘留

Xinhua News, 2009-05-18

Reportedly hoping to receive free medical care for his cold, a migrant worker—identified only by his surname, Li—in Dalian (Liaodong Province) called the 120 emergency hotline, saying he might have contracted the H1N1 flu. After health officials and police began a full-scale infectious disease prevention operation involving Li and everyone he might have had contact with, doctors concluded he had only a common cold and had fraudulently claimed to have swine flu. Local police then sentenced him to 10 days of administrative detention without a trial in accordance with the Security Administration Punishment Law's statute on falsely reporting infectious diseases.

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