Current transformations of law about diseases presenting a danger for outside

Abstract

The relevance of the study is due to the need to understand the phenomenon of the pandemic of a new coronavirus infection in social practice and the development trends of legal norms in connection with its occurrence. The main subject of the study is the transformation of legislation in the field of legal regulation of issues of combating diseases that pose a danger to others. Solving problems of studying legislation on diseases that pose a danger to others, the current changes that have been made to the law in connection with the pandemic of a new coronavirus infection are being studied. We analyze and synthesize the changes promptly introduced by the legislator into the Federal Law “On the Basics of Protecting the Health of Citizens in the Russian Federation”, Decree of the Government of the Russian Federation dated December 1, 2004 No. 715 “On Approval of the List of Socially Significant Diseases and the List of Diseases that Constitute a Danger to Others”. Also, research attention is drawn to the features, norms and rules approved by the Decree of the Government of the Russian Federation of July 2, 2020 No. 973 “On the features of organizing the provision of medical care in the event of a threat of the spread of diseases that pose a danger to others”, as well as to the new sanitary and epidemiological rules SP 3.1 .3597-20 “Prevention of a new coronavirus infection (COVID-19)”, approved by Rospotrebnadzor.