Criminal responsibility for the spread of an infectious disease that poses a danger to others

The relevance of this paper is that between June 18 and July 18, 2020, the number of infections and deaths by the coronavirus in the Russian Federation increased by 50 % (from 561 091 to 765 437 men). One of the reasons for this negative dynamics, according to the author, is in the low social responsibility of individual citizens of the Russian Federation and in ignoring the recommendations of the competent authorities. Currently, some residents of the Russian Federation are carriers of a viral disease, the infection of which often causes death. These citizens disregarded the president's call and the recommendations of Rospotrebnadzor to refrain from going abroad, stay at home, thereby endangering the life and health of executive and law-abiding Russians. The novelty of this study is that since coming into force of the Criminal Code to the present reality of the epidemic there wasn’t such a global scale, which led to insufficient coverage in criminal law. The author used the materials, that are accessible to the public, analyzed the social responsibility of individual citizens of the Russian Federation, the administrative responsibility introduced, the materials of judicial practice, the dynamics of coronavirus spread. It is proposed to introduce a new article in the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation in its final form. The author also provides an explanation of where the convicted person, who is guilty of spreading an infectious disease that poses a danger to others, should be detained.