Administrative and Judicial (Penal) Measures Taken by The Algerian Authorities to Confront the Coronavirus

Abstract

In the face of the Corona pandemic, like the countries of the world, Algeria has taken precautionary and other deterrent measures that keep pace with and accompany the epidemic, aiming to protect the security and safety of the citizen in the first place. Which was approved by the President of the Republic, Abdel Majid Tebboune, and aimed at preventing and combating the spread of the Corona epidemic (Covid 19), as Executive Decree No. 20-69 issued on March 21, 2020, came with measures and measures that ranged from approving a total quarantine for some states, then Gradually, the state entered a partial quarantine for all the states of the homeland, with a variation in the hours of quarantine. And in front of the quarantine procedures, to ensure the safety and security of the citizen and to preserve public order within society, and in order to respect the quarantine procedures, Algeria entered into deterrent measures, ranging between Administrative penalties and criminal penalties imposed on citizens, as well as the adoption of deterrent measures for all violators of the quarantine procedures, and these penalties were financial fines and imprisonment as a penalty depriving freedom, as the Algerian legislator amended the Penal Code. Irrigation including articles stipulating criminal penalties for all quarantine violators and for everyone who stands an obstacle to the application of quarantine measures and the preservation of public order by the police and gendarmerie agents to maintain security.