Chapter 1187 SARS Is Coming

In the busy days, Fan Wubing forgot one thing, something very important.

Although Fan Wubing has clearly remembered many important events that have happened at home and abroad since his rebirth. But it cannot be denied that it is normal for some omissions to occur occasionally, especially those events that are not very closely related to making money.

When Fan Wubing heard Cuiqi say that Shen Ying had caught a cold in Guangzhou and kept coughing. No one expected that a huge disaster spreading across the country was quietly taking shape.

In January this year, two cases of unexplained pneumonia occurred in hospitals and families in Heyuan City and Zhongshan City, Guangdong Province. The Guangdong Provincial Department of Health promptly dispatched clinical medicine and epidemiology experts to conduct clinical and epidemiological investigations. After retrospective investigation, the earliest case occurred on November 16 last year.

In the first two months of this year, Guangxi, Hunan, and Sichuan provinces each had a small number of imported cases.

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Before the Spring Festival, in Guangzhou, virus particles invisible to the naked eye were spreading in the air. If inhaled, symptoms such as fever would appear in the lungs, and they would be "quarantined" to the doorstep of death.

Citizens via text messages and phone calls. People are spreading rumors about the horror of this virus and talking about this strange disease. Later, doctors named it acute infectious pneumonia, with the English name added. People call it SARS.

This disease seems to be more terrifying than the plague. As a highly infectious disease, it can be spread through breathing. People outside Guangzhou spread word of mouth that some people had contracted the disease and were quarantined, and some had died of the disease. What is SARS? Initially, no one knew. All I know is that if you catch it you may die.

Rumors spread faster than SARS and are even more terrifying. Masks are out of stock in Guangzhou, and isatis root is out of stock. A bottle of white vinegar costs 1,000 yuan. A female reporter who interviewed SARS later wrote the book "On the Frontline of the Pao Zhao Epidemic". It describes a situation like this: She left home for Guangzhou. Before leaving, her mother forced her to take some isatis root. She went to several pharmacies and asked. Isatis root has been out of stock in the past few days. said the drugstore owner. They were all bought back by family members working in Guangdong. Sent to Guangdong. Her brother bought her five bottles of white vinegar when she got on the plane.

The unknown cause causes panic among many people. Rumors spread everywhere, and people stocked up on daily necessities in large quantities, including rice, flour, grain, oil, and salt. They were temporarily out of stock, which intensified the people's panic.

During the Spring Festival of 2003 when there was no official confirmation. The rumor spread like a virus. There were rumors that it was the plague, and there were rumors that it was a biological attack. Walking on the street, people gathered together as happily as in previous years, but their hearts were not as peaceful as in previous years.

Pictures like this started appearing in the media. At night in Guangzhou's CITIC Plaza, a girl carefully tied a mask on her lover from behind. The two faces that were supposed to be sweet were tense.

The festive atmosphere of the New Year has not yet dissipated in the rumors. The reporters received information that the Guangzhou Municipal Government was going to hold a press conference. At the meeting, the spokesperson announced the situation of SARS in Guangzhou.

According to the spokesperson, since the end of last year. Cases of atypical pneumonia have appeared in some areas of Guangdong.

Starting from January 12 this year. Individual critically ill patients from other places were transferred to some large hospitals in Guangzhou for treatment.

Around the Spring Festival, local cases began to appear in Guangzhou. As of today, more than 100 such cases have been found in Guangzhou, many of them medical staff.

The SARS alarm was sounded from Guangzhou.

After Fan Wubing received Hui Qi's call, he immediately called Shen Ying back to ask about her situation.

"Why did you suddenly catch a cold? You were fine when you left." Fan Wubing asked strangely.

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"Ahem, I'm not sure. It seems that pneumonia is prevalent here in Guangzhou. Maybe he's infected." Shen Ying's voice seemed a little weak, and her cough was a little stagnant, which made Fan Wuyi's heart tighten.

"Pneumonia is prevalent in Guangzhou?" Fan Wubing heard this. Just remembered something.

"Well, it is said that many people have been quarantined. I was planning to fly back. If I didn't have a fever and didn't go to the outpatient clinic, I would probably have also been registered for quarantine. Now people in Guangzhou are panicked. She said it was rat fatigue or something. "Ahem." Shen Ying coughed again. "It was impossible for Fan Wubing to forget the disaster of SARS that occurred in most of China this year, and he suddenly became a little worried.

When he first met, he still remembered such a thing, so he specifically talked to Boss Zhu about strengthening the prevention of infectious diseases. Building large hospitals for the treatment of infectious diseases, etc., and the Fan Investment Group and the government also cooperated to build a large hospital for the prevention and treatment of infectious diseases. Although it is not completely completed at this time, it is basically usable.

Now considering that Shen Ying is very likely to be infected with this terrible disease, Fan Wubing is also very worried, especially worried that Zhang Qi was also infected by her in the past, and it will be even more troublesome then. , so he decided immediately. "You try to stay in the room and stay isolated from the staff. I will fly over on a private plane to pick you up immediately."

"Don't be so nervous, right? It's probably just a bad cold," Shen Ying replied weakly.

Fan Wubing immediately objected, "You don't know the seriousness of the situation! Be obedient and stay! I'll be there immediately!"

Before Fan Wubing put down the phone, the landline on his desk also rang. But it was the person in charge of the Guangzhou branch of Fan Investment Group who called. He informed Fan Wubing of the outbreak of infectious diseases in Guangzhou, and said that business has been affected recently, but e-commerce has been affected. achieved greater development.

“Many customers now negotiate and order through our dedicated network. After all, during the epidemic period, face-to-face communication has been affected, but online video conferencing and online orders can also play the same role. "The person in charge of the Guangzhou branch reported to Fan Wubinghui.

Regarding this point, Fan Wubing is understandable. In fact, the public’s understanding of e-commerce changed greatly before and after SARS.

Due to the extremely rapid and violent spread of SARS. Everyone is in danger, and the traditional business model has been severely impacted, and people basically don’t go out. Then office, shopping and other behaviors and commercial activities will naturally shrink severely, and the speed and convenience of e-commerce will be welcomed by the public.

From a shopping perspective, people no longer need to go to crowded stores and supermarkets, but can directly conduct business activities and various business meetings through online stores. We can also communicate and negotiate with each other through the Erjia League, which saves personnel the pain of traveling around. During the SARS period, the mobility of Nalian Delete Eight members decreased, which objectively greatly promoted the development of e-commerce.

Later survey results showed that in the past, the general situation of understanding of e-commerce was that only one-third of people were relatively familiar with e-commerce. Most of the public was just ignorant about e-commerce and did not know much about it. In terms of personal past use of e-commerce technology and e-commerce business, two-thirds of the respondents said they had not used it, and more than 60% of the public had not used e-commerce technology or e-commerce business before SARS. This shows that the popularity of e-commerce is not very high.

In terms of the company's past use of e-commerce technology and e-commerce business, two-thirds of the respondents said they have used it. The company's e-commerce application is much better than that of individuals. Companies that have used e-commerce are more Approximately twice as many as individuals.

In the past, due to the influence of various conditions, including insufficient publicity of e-commerce itself, personal ability issues, economic conditions and other reasons, the popularity of e-commerce was not yet in place. The popularity of e-commerce applications among individuals is not yet high. Although the company's situation is better than that of the individual, it is not very optimistic either.

During the SARS period, personal use of online businesses increased by more than 20%.

Since the outbreak of SARS, the number of visits to portal websites has also increased rapidly during this period, especially the number of visits to Huafeng.com. The number of news subscribers has soared by more than 30%, and the registered users and daily sending volume of SMS have increased by more than 30%. . The average daily page views of Huafeng.com's online mall increased by more than 20%, the average daily page views of online games also increased by nearly 20%, and the chat room set a record of 100,000 people online at the same time.

Fanshi Investment Group is a model in terms of companies using online business. The company's corporate website mainly focuses on promoting the company, introducing products, customer service, online sales, online communication, online advertising, etc. to provide comprehensive Internet services for internal units. With the purpose of providing timely, accurate and rich corporate information and product information to foreign users, Fanshi Investment Group invests nearly 10 million yuan every year to build, maintain and promote the website. Nowadays, Fanshi Investment Group's corporate website application has ensured the possibility of the company's profits continuing to grow during the arrival of SARS.

But at this time, Fan Wubing didn't care to say anything more to him. He just asked the company's employees to pay attention to epidemic prevention, and the company should allocate special funds for epidemic prevention purposes in the company and the external environment. At the same time, Fan Wubing also emphasized, One day the matter became serious. The Guangzhou branch can donate 20 million yuan. Used for epidemic prevention and treatment work.

"The health of the company's employees is the first priority. We must remain vigilant on this point. Especially you senior executives, please try not to participate in gathering activities if nothing happens. There is nothing you can do about the possible decline in performance. I can I understand, after all, the epidemic this time is very serious," Fan Wubing repeatedly warned.

"Thank you, Mr. Fan, for your concern." The other party was very excited. Don't forget to add one sentence. "We try to solve most of the problems online and try to ensure that this year's mission will not be too affected."

Fan Wubing gave a few more instructions. Then he asked his assistant to arrange a private jet and prepare to fly directly to Guangzhou. Bring Shen Ying and the others back.

At the same time, Fan Wubing called his father Fan Heng again to ask what happened.

"I don't know?!" Fan Heng looked confused. Apparently he had not received any report on this issue, and he also said, "It's just rumors, right? Otherwise, why didn't the health department raise the issue?" Report? The senior officials probably don’t know the details of this matter.”

Bureaucracy, bureaucracy!

Fan Wubing shook his head and said to his father Fan Heng. "You'd better take the initiative to care about this matter. Then talk to the senior management. This is a big deal. Judging from the current situation, this disease has not yet found a way to control it. It is extremely contagious and has an extremely high mortality rate. , a little carelessness can easily lead to unpredictable consequences!”

"Now is the time." Fan Heng pondered for a moment. Then he said, "Then let me find out first!"

The reason why Fan Heng hesitated was mainly because the work of the Ministry of Health was not under his jurisdiction, and the people in the Ministry of Health had a feud with Fan Wubing in the past, so both sides did not like each other, so Fan Heng had never intervened in the affairs there.

Another point, which is also very important, is that the Ministry of Health has just changed its new leader recently, and everyone is busy running for office and building relationships with senior officials. They may not have the leisure to care about things far away in Guangzhou, and even if they care, they will not pay much attention to it.

At present, the most important thing is naturally the government work report in March and the government change of term. The other thing is naturally the convening of the National People's Congress and the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, which are the biggest things.

However, since his son Fan Wubing attaches so much importance to it. Fan Heng naturally cannot take it lightly. Especially when he heard that several patients had died in a short period of time there, and no effective treatment method had been found, Fan Heng decided to ask about it.

Facing the questioning of the Politburo Standing Committee member and the Executive Vice Premier. The attitude of the people in the Ministry of Health was still very correct, and the minister personally stated that everything was under control. Please rest assured, leaders. At the same time, it also expressed that the new leadership of the Ministry of Health is working hard and has contacted the World Health Organization...Fei. Cooperate on this issue and strive to solve the problem as soon as possible.

In fact, yesterday the Ministry of Health sent a request to... "to assist in the prevention and treatment of COVID-19.

Today, the Health Department of Shandong Province held a press conference. It reported that between January 2011 and February 2012, there were 100 cases of atypical pneumonia, including 10 deaths.

...Fei issued a brief warning to the world through a network system established by a group of American scientists ten years ago to quickly notify the world of emerging diseases. The content is that 100 people in Guangdong, China have suffered from acute respiratory syndrome (SARS).

Everything seems not very serious.

Fan Heng asked about the relevant situation in detail. He also asked for relevant information, which was specially delivered as a report on the prevention and treatment of COVID-19 by the Ministry of Health and submitted to the Political Bureau for review.