What if I can't afford the isolation fee?

Legal analysis: Centralized isolation medical observation measures should be taken for those exposed in COVID-19. Do not have the conditions of the region can also take home isolation medical observation. At present, the country has not yet issued policies and regulations related to the cost during the isolation period, and there are also different practices on whether and how to charge. For those who are particularly difficult, if they don't have the money at their own expense, that is, special circumstances such as economic difficulties, they can raise money from relevant staff of government departments in time to solve them.

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If the quarantined person is finally diagnosed as "novel coronavirus", according to the Law on the Prevention and Control of Infectious Diseases and related policies, all expenses shall be borne by the state finance, and patients need not bear the isolation treatment expenses.

Legal basis: Article 49 of the Emergency Response Law of People's Republic of China (PRC). After the occurrence of natural disasters, accidents or public health incidents, the people's government performing unified leadership duties may take one or more of the following emergency measures:

(1) Organizing the rescue and treatment of victims, evacuating, evacuating and properly placing threatened persons, and taking other rescue measures;

(2) Quickly control dangerous sources, mark dangerous areas, block dangerous places, delimit warning areas, and implement traffic control and other control measures;

(3) immediately repair the damaged public facilities such as transportation, communication, water supply, drainage, power supply, gas supply and heating. , to provide shelter and daily necessities for threatened personnel, and to implement medical rescue, health and epidemic prevention and other safeguard measures;

(4) Prohibiting or restricting the use of relevant equipment and facilities, closing or restricting the use of relevant places, suspending crowd activities or production and business activities that may lead to the expansion of hazards, and taking other protective measures;

(five) to activate the financial reserve funds and emergency relief materials stipulated by the people's government at the same level, and to call other urgently needed materials, equipment, facilities and tools when necessary;

(six) to organize citizens to participate in emergency rescue and disposal work, and to require personnel with specific expertise to provide services;

(seven) to ensure the supply of basic necessities such as food, drinking water and fuel;

(eight) severely punish hoarding, driving up prices, manufacturing and selling fake and shoddy products and other acts that disrupt market order, stabilize market prices and maintain market order;

(nine) severely punish acts that disrupt social order, such as looting property, disrupting emergency response and maintaining social order;

(10) Take necessary measures to prevent the occurrence of secondary and derivative events.