Act on Prevention and Control of Infections and Infect-ious Diseases in People and Covid Disease—19

Krzysztof Chochowski

doi:10.18290/rns20483-5

Krzysztof Chochowski State Higher Vocational School prof. Stanisław Tarnowski in Tarnobrzeg https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3198-9619

DOI: https://doi.org/10.18290/rns20483-5

Keywords: COVID-19, an epidemic, the Act of December 5, the Act of December 5 2008 on the prevention and combating of infections and infectious human diseases

Abstract

The outbreak of the COVID-19 epidemic in China, and its subsequent spread throughout the world, including Poland, revealed that many countries are not prepared for such negative occurrence. Deficiencies and shortcomings could be observed in practically every sphere of the stateʼs functioning, which also applied to our country. Deficits were also observed in the scope of the applicable legal regulations, which underwent a certain petrification and did not sufficiently take into account the possibility of a new infectious disease, such as COVID-19.

This text presents considerations on the Act of 5 December 2008 on the prevention and combating of infections and infectious human diseases in the context of COVID-19. The purpose of those deliberations was to present the latest changes to the above-mentioned act and to assess their validity.

References

Constitution of the Republic of Poland of 2 April 1997 (Journal of Laws of 1997, No. 78, item 483, as amended).

The Act of 5 December 2008 on preventing and combating infections and infectious human diseases (consolidated text, Journal of Laws of 2019, item 1239, as amended).

The Act of March 2, 2020 on special solutions related to the prevention, counteraction and combating of COVID-19, other infectious diseases and the emergencies caused by them (Journal of Laws of 2020, item 374, as amended).

Regulation of the Minister of Health of February 27, 2020 on SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus infection (Journal of Laws of 2020, item 325).

Regulation of the Minister of Health of April 6, 2020 on infectious diseases resulting in the obligation of hospitalization, isolation or isolation at home, and the obligation to quarantine or epidemiological supervision (Journal of Laws of 2020, item 607).

Regulation of the Council of Ministers of August 7, 2020 on the establishment of certain restrictions, orders and bans in connection with an epidemic (Journal of Laws of 2020, item 1356).