Chapter 450: SARS is really here (2)
Zhao Song Group donated enough equipment for the prevention of "SARS" to the school where the children went to school, and donated enough prevention and disinfection materials and funds, although the school management looked very enthusiastic on the surface to express their gratitude, but they actually did not care very much so that Zhao Hong also had no way, the whole country thinks that "SARS" is not a problem, and why can they attach great importance to it?
Zhao Hong can only force his children to wear masks for the time being, drink more Chinese patent medicines that are said to have a certain protective effect, and there is no more way to do the rest!
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On March 19, the Minister of Health of China met with the representative of the World Health Organization in China and briefed him on the situation of SARS in some areas of Guangdong Province.
On March 20, the World Health Organization announced that only half of the staff in hospitals in Vietnam and Hong Kong were working. The organization also warns that medical personnel may contract the disease if they come into direct contact with patients without protection.
On March 25, Ye Mou, the head nurse of the emergency department of the Ershadao Branch of the Guangdong Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, died of SARS, becoming the first medical staff to die in the line of duty, and caused a great shock.
On March 27, the Hong Kong City Government announced that it would prohibit visits to SARS patients, and those who had been in close contact with SARS patients would be required to report to designated clinics of the Department of Health every day for 10 days, and quarantine declaration measures would be implemented at all immigration control points. On March 27, it was announced that primary and secondary schools and kindergartens would be closed.
Zhao Hong also took a temporary leave of absence for his children to study at home! And the streets of Haishi were already full of men and women wearing masks, and the shopping mall suddenly became deserted, and there were many more sellers than buyers......
There is only one place that is overcrowded, and that is in pharmacies.
"A dozen masks, disinfectant, and ......"
"Me too!"
"Same! a few more!"
"What? out of stock!"
"There's nothing left to be good!It's okay, it's better if it's more expensive!"
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A lot of news has begun to appear on the Internet, some of which are really clear, some of which are just hearsay, and some of which even add their own understanding or imagination......
And people have changed from being indifferent at the beginning to being all soldiers, and the wind is loud, in line with the mentality of believing it or not!
There are more and more people who are not afraid of 10,000 and are afraid of what happens.
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On March 31, the Hong Kong City government quarantined an apartment building (Block E) in Amoy Gardens. More than 100 people have already been infected in the apartment. The residents of the apartment were then moved to a resort center, where the authorities carried out a full disinfection of the apartment. The authorities believe that the spread of the disease is mainly related to the design of the housing structure, and that there is a possibility that patients from Ward 8A may be transmitted through excreta or wastewater after using the toilet in the unit when they visit Block E. The incident also raised concerns about the possibility of airborne transmission of the virus, though HO has since denied the possibility.
On March 31, China launched the "Technical Plan for the Prevention and Treatment of Atypical Pneumonia", which was published on the Internet on the same day. The causative agent of SARS is not yet clear, but a technical plan for prevention and treatment has been formulated on the basis of summarizing the prevention and control work in the previous stage.
On March 31, Professor Hong, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, said that the causative source of atypical pneumonia had been successfully isolated and was likely to be a new mutant chlamydia.
In fact, on March 25, the Center for Disease Control in Country M and the Department of Microbiology of Chenggang University had announced that the SARS pathogen was a "coronavirus" from pigs, but it did not attract the attention of researchers in Beijing. It was not until April 16 that the World Health Organization announced in Geneva that a variant of the coronavirus had been confirmed as the causative agent causing atypical pneumonia.
On April 1, the government also warned the citizens of country M that the government also banned Hong Kong City manufacturers from participating in the upcoming RS watch exhibition, fearing that the disease would spread to RS. On the evening of April 1, more than 700 Amoy residents were evacuated and rushed to two resorts in Sai Kung and Lei Yue Mun in government-provided minibuses.
On April 2, the government pledged to cooperate fully with the World Health Organization. All cases were reported to HO domestically. In China's Guangdong province, there were 361 new cases and nine deaths in March. At the same time, people in Beijing, S Province, and Hunan Province in China were also infected. But the Ministry of Health said the disease in Guangdong province was basically under control. The World Health Organization (WHO) has also entered the Guangdong region to learn about the outbreak and advised tourists not to travel or work in the port city and Guangdong Province. On 3 April, experts from the World Health Organization (WHO) arrived in Guangdong Province to inspect the situation and discuss the development of the epidemic with local experts. On the afternoon of April 5, the Vice Ministry of Health of China met with five experts from the World Health Organization in Yangcheng.
By early April, China's state media had begun to report on the number of SARS cases, though the general narrative was that the outbreak was under control. On April 3, China's Ministry of Health held a press conference in Beijing, announcing that experts from the World Health Organization had arrived in Guangdong Province and had been excluded from the epidemic area after inspecting the situation in Beijing. The Minister of Health said that the epidemic has been effectively controlled, and it is safe to work and travel in China and Beijing, he said that there were only 12 SARS cases and 3 deaths in Beijing at that time, and said with a smile that it is safe to wear a mask or not. He also pointed out that SARS refers to effective control on the domestic continent, not to say effective eradication and complete eradication, nor to say effective control and complete eradication in all parts of the world. Explaining why the Ministry of Health did not report the epidemic, he said that SARS is not a notifiable infectious agent and does not fall within the scope of reporting, and that the epidemic only occurs in local areas, and the Law on the Prevention and Control of Infectious Diseases stipulates that the local government where the epidemic occurs, that is, the Guangdong provincial government, should announce it. The deputy director of the Information Office of the State Council also pointed out that from the beginning of February to April, there were more than 500 reports and articles on SARS in various media in Guangdong Province. Many people believed his words, and most of the people and governments at home and abroad thought that there was really no problem, and that it was just a problem that was not so difficult to solve!
Zhao Hong looked at the person who was talking eloquently on the TV station, as if it was a matter in a distant place, and it was not very important news, but Zhao Hong knew that this was a big misinformation, in short, people did not pay enough attention to the epidemic because of this, and this is the biggest joke at present! Soon they will deny today's statement themselves!
Because it turns out that they are thinking too simply, and the impact of things is just beginning!