Political and legal units across China are ordered to properly handle illegal and criminal cases related to the ongoing epidemic of COVID-19 in accordance with the law.
A series of measures have been taken to enhance China's public legal services related to the outbreak of COVID-19, according to the Ministry of Justice.
The Ministry of Justice recently opened a special column on three authoritative legal information websites to address the public's legal concerns over epidemic prevention and control measures.
Judicial administrative staff in Wuhan, the epicenter of the novel coronavirus outbreak, are fighting the epidemic in numerous communities across the city, helping residents prevent and control the infectious disease.
President Xi Jinping on Feb 5 called for greater legislative, law enforcement, judicial and law observance efforts to strengthen the capacity to carry out law-based infection prevention and control.
The prevention and control measures of the epidemic shall be carried out in accordance with the law and in an orderly manner, an official from China's top legislature said on Feb 10.
Wang Chen, vice chairman of the National People's Congress (NPC) Standing Committee, Friday stressed law-based epidemic control work to provide legal support for winning the battle against the novel coronavirus outbreak.
The Central China province of Hubei has taken measures to keep its public legal services available after shutting down all the physical legal service facilities across the province due to the novel coronavirus outbreak.
Police officers at drug rehab facilities across Wuhan, the epicenter of the ongoing novel coronavirus epidemic, have been working tirelessly to shield these facilities from the untamed virus.
The National Office of Law Popularization recently released a set of Q&As in an effort to publicize legal information about the prevention and control of the ongoing novel coronavirus epidemic.
China now has more than 41,000 online and offline public legal service platforms and hotlines at various administrative levels.
Rehabilitation services now cover the entire province of east China's Zhejiang Province
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