This item is sourced from the CCCSL: CSH Covid-19 Control Strategies List co-ordinated by the Complexity Science Hub Vienna, Austria. We are in the process of gathering further information and aligning taxonomies for these items.
Type of Intervention: Specific Action; Financial and Economic
Sectors Involved: Health
Intervention Categories: Surveillance and response measures; Tracing and quarantining contacts; Legal and policy; Regulatory change
Level of Jurisdiction: National
Overview: The new coronavirus is designated as a ‘disease’, enabling forcible hospitalisation at the taxpayer’s expense. The further classification as a ‘quarantinable disease’ means that people suspected of infection must undergo diagnosis and treatment while under quarantine and can be segregated from the rest of the population.
Full details here: http://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/AJ202001270041.html