Chapter 1207: Capital in Crisis

What a stupid move! After Fan Wubing heard that Singapore had closed down Zabi's entrance, he thought about it and understood the reason.

Wanting to take advantage of people with urgent immigration needs to put pressure on the domestic government may seem feasible, but it is actually a very stupid approach. You must know that China has its own rules. If Singapore lowers its stature, senior figures If you come here to plead guilty in person, this matter may still be discussed.

but. If you want to confront the central government with a threatening attitude, it is not like the birthday girl is always eating arsenic. Are you tired of living?

Therefore, Fan Wubing could be sure without looking at it that the senior management would definitely treat Singapore's visit indifferently this time. It was not for any other reason. The mere reason of not respecting the leader was enough for them to drink.

The COVID-19 epidemic continues to rage, and April 20 is a milestone day that rewrites the history of China's fight against COVID-19.

In the afternoon of that day, at a press conference directly introducing the latest epidemic situation and prevention and control of COVID-19 in mainland China, the appearance of the Deputy Minister of Health made sensitive people realize something.

At this time, the capital city was already in commotion after a long period of obliviousness. Grapevine spread various theories and speculations about the incident through the Internet and mobile phone text messages in this city with a population of 13 million.

Sure enough, the number of confirmed cases in Beijing suddenly increased from 37 to 339 overnight, and the number of confirmed cases announced once every five days was changed to once a day. What followed was regarded by the media as an "unprecedented and decisive measure. It was a soul-shaking education for officials at all levels." "Two senior ministerial-level officials were dismissed?

The central government's strong intervention made people suddenly realize the "enemy" they faced

What is known as pneumonia in mainland China is the Ping-style name given to "severe acute respiratory syndrome" by the World Health Organization, and its full English name is Littering. Carlo Urbani, the WHO infectious disease expert who was the first to name it, died of an infection while working on a blood patch he was researching.

The World Health Organization sounded the global alert for the first time on March 12, and officially issued a travel warning not to travel to Hong Kong and Guangdong on April 2. Thirteen laboratories around the world teamed up to study the culprit. It took just eight days to identify the causative agent as a new type of coronavirus, whereas the search for HIV took the world a full three years.

Under the microscope, the deadly virus appears as beautiful as a crown. Where it comes from and how it is transmitted are still unknown.

As Vice Premier Wu, who was appointed as the Minister of Health at the critical moment, said, in such a globalized era where information is highly shared, there is not much transparency about major health issues.

It will only have the opposite effect.

This is evidenced by rumors that peaked around April 20th, around April 17th. There is an overwhelming amount of gossip spread through mobile phone text messages. The locations and numbers are so precise that no one can doubt them. In fact, many of the buildings listed in the gossip are operating normally and have not been closed or isolated.

The sudden tenfold increase in the number of epidemics caused the city, which had just begun to feel uneasy, to lose its balance overnight. Various rumors were flying in the sky, and migrant workers and college students were leaving Beijing one after another. The panic buying scene in Guangdong two months ago reappeared on the streets of Beijing. Two days ago, white radish, which cost 80 cents per pound, suddenly increased to 3 yuan. This is because it is said that boiling white radish in water can prevent infertility.

Of course, it’s not just honeysuckle, licorice, isatis root and white radish that are being snapped up.

When Fan Wubing went out in the afternoon, he wanted to go to the market to buy something. When he approached the nearby Carrefour City. Suddenly he was shocked. The shelves lined with rice and noodles are already empty.

From hygiene products, health medicines to food, the panic buying wave quickly swept through major cities in just two days and then quickly dispersed. Many people who had participated in the panic buying said that it was not that they had no confidence in modern logistics, but that they had no confidence in modern logistics. Worried that the weight loss will be so severe that people will not dare to go out.

Panic, a virus more terrifying than the epidemic, mixed with anger for concealing the epidemic and hope for new government measures, constitute people's complex emotions during this childhood period.

People associate the name of the capable and capable female vice-premier with the homophonic sound of "Wu Epidemic". Citizens also gradually became familiar with the new faces who came to Beijing to serve as acting mayors.

This senior economist, whose creed is that no one can believe what he believes in, once presided over Guangdong's financial work during the financial crisis and was called a firefighter. When he took the initiative to break the news to Chinese and foreign reporters at a press conference, and when he unexpectedly sat in front of the CCTV camera and expressed his confidence and even more frankly his worries, people felt a fresh style and frankness. courage.

Starting from transparency, the public's right to know is placed on an equal footing with science and the rule of law. Endowed with the same powerful power; starting from the beginning, a rational and responsible person who actively participates in international cooperation is reversing the initial passivity that was caught off guard, showing the ability to prevent natural disasters from turning into disasters in the face of crises.

The central government once again increased special funds. Funds for disease control agencies at the provincial, municipal, and county levels in the central and western regions reached 2.9 billion yuan.

From hospitals to communities, a national integrated ** epidemic reporting system and command system have been established. This year's May Day holiday has been canceled to reduce the spread of obesity due to the movement of people. Strictly prevent the spread of the epidemic to rural areas. Disseminate information through the media to find ** patients. Public mechanisms such as surrounding passengers are operating healthily.

From cities to rural areas, all regions strictly protect themselves and prevent the local epidemic from spreading to the surrounding areas. Beijing controls the return of college students and migrant workers. Shanghai sounded the orange alert and laid a strict prevention and control network from the suburbs. All regions implemented medical isolation for outsiders in the wards. It is said that due to the strict measures in Shandong Province, there are people who are eager to go home and try to ride bicycles back to Shandong from Beijing?

China is fighting an urban battle and rural defense war against the epidemic.

In just a few days, 1,200 military medical staff were urgently mobilized from all over the country to the largest infectious disease prevention and control base in the country built in the suburbs of Beijing by Fan Investment Group and the government. All confirmed patients are treated here.

From April 21 to the end of April. The number of cases in Beijing increased by about 90 to 100 every day, reaching more than 150 a day, and the epidemic showed a high plateau period.

Science is the nemesis of disease. Some people say that in this sudden disaster, the scientific community in mainland China encountered the embarrassment of doing nothing. Whether it was the identification of the pathogen or the completion of the whole genome sequencing of the virus, mainland China, as the main battlefield of the epidemic, failed to take the lead in publishing scientific research results.

Such a statement is obviously too one-sided. The passing of honor cannot erase the significant progress made by mainland scientists in their joint efforts to tackle key problems. Their firmness and perseverance in the truth are comparable to any brilliant scientific research results, and are enough to make people remember and be proud of them many years later.

**At the beginning of the outbreak in Guangdong, Guangdong medical experts led by Zhong Nanshan found in the process of treating patients that the pathogen of this strange disease was different from chlamydia and bacteria, and more like a virus that humans had never seen before.

Viruses, a microorganism with a diameter of only 20 to 400 nanometers, have caused tragedy after tragedy in human history? The earliest recorded highly contagious virus was smallpox. From the beginning of smallpox around 1,600 BC to the first vaccination of cowpox vaccine by British doctor Edward more than 200 years ago. Countless lives have been taken away in the past 1,800 years?

However, in the Chinese medical community at this time, the mainstream voice was not like this. They believed that it was chlamydia that caused **.

Is it chlamydia or virus? The two voices represent two completely different treatment methods that bet on life.

Despite all objections, Zhong Nanshan and his colleagues insisted on using conventional antiviral drugs such as ribavirin for ordinary patients based on clinical efficacy. Non-invasive ventilators and large doses of hormones were used for critically ill patients with increasing lung shadows.

Practice has proved that this virus-targeted treatment method has greatly reduced the incidence of respiratory failure and has become the key to Guangdong's record of the world's lowest COVID-19 mortality rate.

Later, many doctors in Beijing who participated in the rescue of COVID-19 patients said when talking about the successful experience of treatment. If there had not been the persistence of Zhong Nanshan and others, and the use of non-invasive ventilators and large doses of hormones, the consequences would have been disastrous.

Of course, what is not recognized by people is the role of traditional Chinese medicine in the prevention and control of COVID-19.

Recognizing the role of traditional Chinese medicine will inevitably cause a major reshuffle of the entire health system, and uncontrollable social public opinion will also cause greater turmoil in the entire COVID-19 prevention and control work. After all, the entire medical system is now built according to the Western medicine model. Once everyone is in a hurry to find traditional Chinese medicine treatments. The existing health care system will immediately suffer a heavy blow.

Moreover, the market of traditional Chinese medicine will also encounter explosive market conditions, which will not be beneficial to the construction of a calm medical and health system. It will not be beneficial to ** prevention and control. It can only make the current situation more chaotic?

But before May Day, news came from the gene research base of Fan Investment Group far away in the northeast. They have isolated the ** virus and conducted in-depth analysis to determine that the pathogen that can be found in nature is civet cat?

Once this news was announced, it immediately caused an uproar in society?