Introduction in the country of Lokdaun on the background of the coronavirus pandemic is not a violation of the European Convention on Human Rights. This decision was made in the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), reports Russian Newspaper with reference to the generalization of the Supreme Court of Russia.
The ECHR refused to compare quarantine with imprisonment. “Quarantine has been applied to everyone in the state. In addition, a person could leave the house if necessary and was not deprived of social contacts,” said in generalization. According to the position of the court, the degree of restrictions during the quarantine was not strong enough to call the specified epidemiological regime by imprisonment.
According to the publication, the decision was made five months after the complaint. The Strasbourg court recognized that COVID-19 pandemic continues and may have serious consequences for the whole world, so the current situation is unpredictable.
previously it became known that the number of victims of COVID-19 in the European Region increased by five percent in the European Region, and new cases of infection – for eight. During this period, more than 28 thousand citizens died in European countries from complications of infection. In WHO, they stressed that Europe again became the epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic.