Vietnam: Summary of fines for violations of Covid-19 epidemic prevention and control

09:09, 28/07/2020

In order to assist Customers and Members in understanding current legal regulations related to violations of Covid-19 epidemic prevention and control, LawNet would like to summarize the fines for corresponding violations related to Covid-19 epidemic prevention and control in the article below

No.	Violation	Fine
1	Failing to declare when detecting a person infectious with Covid-19	A warning or a fine of VND 200,000 - VND 500,000
2	Concealing the fact that he/she has been infectious with Covid-19 or someone else has been infectious with Covid-19	VND 500,000 - VND 1,000,000
3	Failure to perform testing to detect Covid-19 at the request of competent state agencies	VND 500,000 - VND 1,000,000
4	Failure to declare or reporting dishonestly and promptly the progress of your Covid-19 disease to assigned physicians and medical staff	A warning or a fine of VND 100,000 - VND 300,000
5	Failure to comply with instructions on preventing and controlling Covid-19 infection from physicians, medical staff, rules and regulations of medical examination and treatment facilities
6	Failure to register for health monitoring with the commune, ward or town health station where the person with Covid-19 resides after leaving the medical examination and treatment facility
7	Failure to ensure protective clothing and personal hygiene conditions for physicians, medical staff, patients and patients' families	VND 1,000,000 - VND 2,000,000
8	Failure to notify information related to people infectious with Covid-19 being examined and treated at their medical examination and treatment facility to the local preventive health agency
9	Failure to advise on Covid-19 prevention and control measures for patients and their families
10	Failure to monitor the health of physicians and medical staff directly involved in caring for and treating people with Covid-19
11	Failure to take measures to disinfect waste, clothes, utensils, surrounding environment, or vehicles transporting people infectious with Covid-19	VND 7,000,000 - VND 10,000,000
12	Refuse to admit people infectious with Covid-19 into medical examination and treatment facilities	VND 20,000,000 - VND 30,000,000
13	Failure to take measures to prevent and control infection for people infectious with Covid-19	VND 20,000,000 - VND 30,000,000
14	Failure to organize medical quarantine for people infectious with Covid-19	VND 5,000,000 - VND 10,000,000
15	Refuse or evade the application of the decision on medical quarantine, decision on enforcement of medical quarantine of competent state agencies for people infectious with Covid-19, subjects of border medical quarantine who are sick or carrying the causative agent of Covid-19	VND 5,000,000 - VND 10,000,000
16	Failure to take personal protective measures for people participating in the epidemic prevention and control and people at risk of contracting Covid-19 according to instructions from health authorities	A warning or a fine of VND 100,000 - VND 300,000
17	Failure to notify the People's Committee and local preventive health agencies about Covid-19 cases as prescribed by law	A warning or a fine of VND 100,000 - VND 300,000
18	Concealing his/her illness or someone’s illness in case of Covid-19 infection	VND 1,000,000 - VND 2,000,000
19	Failure to implement or refusal to implement cleaning, disinfection and disinfection measures in epidemic areas	VND 1,000,000 - VND 2,000,000
20	Failure to participate in the fight against the epidemic according to the mobilization decision of the Anti-Epidemic Steering Committee	VND 2,000,000 - VND 5,000,000
21	Collect examination and treatment fees for Covid-19 cases	VND 2,000,000 - VND 5,000,000
22	Failure to implement the decision to temporarily suspend operations of public food service establishments that pose a risk of transmitting Covid-19 in epidemic areas	VND 5,000,000 - VND 10,000,000
23	Failure to implement decisions to apply measures to limit public gatherings or temporarily suspend business and service activities in public places	VND 5,000,000 - VND 10,000,000
24	Failure to implement decisions on inspection, supervision, and medical treatment before entering or leaving areas with Covid-19 epidemic	VND 10,000,000 - VND 20,000,000
25	Failure to comply with medical inspection and treatment requirements for vehicles before leaving areas with Covid-19 epidemic	VND 20,000,000 - VND 30,000,000
26	Failure to implement the decision to ban large gatherings of people in areas where a state of emergency has been declared
27	Bringing unauthorized people and vehicles into an outbreak in an area where a state of emergency has been declared
28	Taking advantage of Covid-19 to hoard goods and push up the price of medical masks	VND 20,000,000 - VND 30,000,000

Legal basis: Decree No. 176/2013/ND-CP of Vietnam’s Government on penalties for administrative violations against medical laws and Decree No. 109/2013/ND-CP of Vietnam’s Government on penalties for administrative violations against the law on price management, fee management, and invoicing.

Note: On April 01, 2020, the Prime Minister of Vietnam signed Decision No. 447/QĐ-TTg on declaration of Covid-19 epidemic in Vietnam, which determines that Covid-19 is a Group A infectious disease, nationwide.

Nguyen Trinh

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