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This article proposes basic ethical principles to strengthen the ethical awareness of decision-makers in relation to decision-making for protection of human beings in the biopolitics of Covid-19. The pandemic presented a new challenge for sustainability in times of the Anthropocene. Bioethics and biolaw have to deal with this challenge in order to protect humanity from destruction by disease. On the one hand is the danger of biopolitical dominance of the citizen and on the other is the challenge to protect the human dignity of citizens during a pandemic. Through hermeneutic analysis the article shows how ethical responsibility is important as the foundation of good health care in the fields of politics and economics in the modern civilization marked by globalization and technological progress. Thus, pandemic ethics imply a reinterpretation of important ethical principles of autonomy, dignity, integrity, and vulnerability of protection of the human person is important in bioethics and biolaw in times of the Anthropocene.