Chapter 007 ** The Appearance of All Beings

In late April, the Tohoku finally lost the chill of the chūn cold and had a warm feeling. But the attack of ** made this warmth disappear in an instant.

In fact, why is this the case in the Northeast, the whole country of China and even some neighboring countries are busy with the best, and people's lives have entered a state of emergency.

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Wednesday, April 6.

7:30 a.m. Hong Kong.

The sudden alarm did not drive away a few dark gray clouds in the northeast sky. In the room, the sleepy-eyed Wei Yunsong stood up lazily, walked out of an arc in front of the window, and habitually sat in front of the desk with a notebook to check the schedule.

In a matter of seconds, he expertly moves the mouse non-stop across a 15-inch radius computer screen. The bar at the bottom of the screen is densely packed by a jī window. Suddenly, a flickering urgent email jumped into his eyes:

"Due to the spread of SARS (severeacuterespiratorysyndrome, commonly known as: ** type pneumonia) in Hong Kong and mainland China, the European market roadshow plan for Unicom when its annual report was released was officially cancelled."

Wei Yunsong, an investment bank of which is the vice president of Dahua, is one of the lead underwriters of Unicom's overseas listing, and Wei is involved in many of the subtleties of Unicom's listing. He certainly doesn't want to lose the opportunity to communicate with investors and several major European funds because of the inexplicable SARS that has been raging for many days.

Wei Yunsong's left thumb and index finger slid evenly over his chin a few times. He has been busy preparing for the roadshow for several weeks and has fallen into a busy and disorderly situation, and suddenly has a feeling of emptiness.

Huaxia News Service, April 6 Beijing: A week after the outbreak of ** pneumonia in Beijing through various non-governmental communication channels such as the Internet and mobile phone text messages, a spokesman for the Beijing Municipal Health Bureau said today that the imported ** pneumonia in Beijing has been effectively controlled.

The spokesman said that since the beginning of April this year, the Beijing city health department has received a total of eight patients with "** type pneumonia" who were transferred to hospitals in Hedong and Hong Kong for treatment in Beijing, of which three died due to serious illness and ineffective treatment, and the rest have basically recovered. Among the close contacts of the patient, 2 medical staff were also found to have similar symptoms, and have been isolated and treated in a timely manner, the source of the disease has not spread to the society, and no primary "** pneumonia" cases have been found in the local area.

Thursday, April 7.

Diary of a travel agency manager:

Capital. The weather was fine.

The sun was already high, my wife went to work, my son went to school, I don't know when they left, I went to bed too late last night.

I have been traveling for more than ten years, and I have never encountered such annoyance, it is really a nest of fire, it is all caused by ***** type pneumonia, which caused me to lose a lot of money out of thin air.

After the Chūn festival, I started organizing a tour to the south. Under my painstaking lobbying and management, this tour group of about 100 people was finally organized, and it was ready to set off to the south.

I received a call from my secretary at noon on the 4th, and I was out talking to a friend about business. He said breathlessly: "Manager Shi, you are coming back to the travel agency soon, something has happened, and many people have to leave the group." ”

"You talk nonsense!" I didn't believe it at the time.

By the time I got back to the travel agency, there were already dozens of tourists waiting there, and the secretary was anxious to explain to them. When he saw me come back, he said, "Our general manager is here, you can tell our manager if you have something." ”

"We're leaving the group, we're not going!" A lot of mouths were shouting in front of my eyes.

"We've signed the contract, why do you say you quit the group?"

"Nonsense, do you want us to be sent to death? Don't you know that there is ** pneumonia in the south now, can you guarantee our safety? "The words were full of gunpowder.

"Yes, we don't have to leave the group, you have to sign another contract with us, if anyone is infected with ** pneumonia during the tour, you are fully responsible, do you dare?"

What else do I have to say? The tourists' fear of contagion shattered my good deal, and besides, if something really happened, I couldn't take responsibility for it, so I had to return the money.

In the afternoon, the phone rang suddenly, and it was an old friend of mine, who was the CEO of a large travel agency in Beijing.

"Is it to comfort my brother?" I'm not angry.

"Brother, my brother is worse than you this time, the Hong Kong and Macao group I organized has all withdrawn from the group, and there is a whole special train!"

They began to organize and plan a trip to the "Hong Kong and Macao Sunset Red Train" a year ago, the tourists are all old men and old ladies, and it went very well, at the beginning he also hoped that I could cooperate with him, I didn't know why I didn't agree to him, and now it seems that the ghost has avoided a greater catastrophe.

In the past few days, the industry seems to be shrouded by the yīn cloud of withdrawal from the group, and the news I heard is that the ** type pneumonia in Huaxia has been hyped by some media overseas, and some countries have advised their citizens not to travel to the Lingnan and Hong Kong areas of China, and this negative impact has also spread to the capital and the East.

Walking on the streets of the capital, I obviously feel that there are more and more people wearing big masks. Are things really that bad?

Xinhua News Agency, April 7: A spokesman for the Ministry of Health of China said that Beijing has established a complete disease monitoring network, set up a professional team for disease investigation and treatment, and a testing laboratory, and trained relevant medical and nursing personnel to be able to respond to the epidemic and ensure the health of the people in the capital.

April 8th. Friday.

12:10 noon. City.

Xue Zhi rushed to a friend's date first. Like many people who live in Pengcheng and work in Hong Kong, Xue Zhixian spends five days a week in Hong Kong and only reunites with family and friends on weekends.

SARS has made many outsiders talk about Pengcheng. But after experiencing the initial rush to buy banlan root and white vinegar, the people of Pengcheng in the epidemic area calmed down. Xue Zhixian walked on the street in Pengcheng City, there were not many people around, but few wore masks.

"**" has not changed the habit of Lingnan people to drink morning tea with the whole family on Sundays. On the side of the street, Pengcheng people who help the old and the young are walking out of the teahouse one after another.

Occasionally, a few people wearing blue masks passed by, and he easily recognized them as from Hong Kong, which was clearly distinguishable from the locals who did not wear masks. He found this situation very interesting: It seems that Hong Kong and Macao compatriots cherish their own lives more than the people in the mainland.

None of the friends who met with Xue Zhixian wore masks. As soon as he told what he had just discovered, a friend said loudly: "No one here wears a mask, but only in Hong Kong." Everyone made fun of each other. While smiling, Xue Zhixian had a faint feeling of lightness in his heart.

14 o'clock. Hong Kong – Beijing.

Wei Yunsong, who flies over Beijing and Hong Kong every month, is all too familiar with the round-trip flights. The same flight, the same route, and the simple black sè business shirt and the CRO briefcase on the right shoulder. Wei Yunsong rushed to the Hong Kong airport after contacting Wang Hong's dinner meeting in Beijing. Wang Hong, a senior analyst at the European investment bank in Beijing, has worked closely with Wei on the Unicom project.

At the airport, Wei Yunsong and the people around him wore masks without exception, and the black sè eyes on the white sè mask became the only way for people to communicate. People looked at each other in uneasy eyes, looking at each other a little. As experts recommend, masks are particularly suitable for preventing the spread of the virus in a closed environment such as an aircraft cabin. Wei Yunsong put the 16 masks he had prepared in the bag he carried with him.

At the border clearance, customs officers mechanically slid their virus scanners over the passengers' bodies, especially extending the stay time in front of the masks. Twenty minutes later, Wei Yunsong boarded the plane and sat down in business class 30A. He reminded himself to be silent along the way, refusing any food supplies. During the flight, in addition to taking a nap or rummaging through the magazines he carried with him, Wei Yun let go of his handbag containing 16 masks from time to time.

In silent prayer, at 6 p.m., the plane landed at Beijing International Airport on time.

At 6:30 p.m., Wei and Wang Hong met on time. This place is much more popular than Hong Kong restaurants, and he subconsciously has an inexplicable desire for the fragrance of silver silk grilled jī wings.

At the end of the conversation, Wei Yunsong's mobile phone rang "lavender". On the other end of the phone was Ms. Huang from the Beijing office: "The Asia-Pacific headquarters issued a notice that people returning to Beijing from Hong Kong cannot go directly to the office, and must first go to the apartment to work alone. ”

17:30 p.m. Capital. Xinlan (Huaxia) Company Office on the 7th floor of Xinlan Building.

Huang Yixin felt inexplicably depressed. The colleague next to him was coughing, which caused his throat to itch a little, as if there was more lung pain. Over the past few days, the advice of her friends and all kinds of associations about SARS have come to her. She stopped what she was doing and went straight to the bathroom. In front of the sink, she coughed vigorously a few times, as if to cough up all the bacteria.

Huang Yixin put her left hand on the upper part of the left xiōng, maybe it was too hard, and she asked herself in her heart: Is it really "**"? She shuffled a little uneasy back to her seat. Good Friends' Family Reunion Plans, Give Up! Dinner date, give up! She began to pack up her desk, hoping that 6 o'clock would come soon.

She is used to shutting down her desk after tidying up. A typical indos prompt sounded in her mind. Letter with a red exclamation mark, from the Director of Administration. The topic is "Special Warning" - due to the suspected SARS found near Xinlan Building, please be sure to take precautions.

"Hurry home!" Huang Yixin reminded himself again. While the phone was being turned off, she answered a call from the director of administration. "The Administration Department should prepare SARS prevention and control supplies after work, please go home later to assist in the work." Huang Yixin tried to restrain her jī movement, and looked at the cute photo of her son on the table, and she shook her head apologetically.

Huang Yixin was given the job of contacting the disinfection company and ordering 3,000 masks from the relevant health departments. Her job had to ensure that Xinlan was completely disinfected for the first time. By the early morning of Monday, April 10, when Xinlan employees go to work, they will receive the first batch of masks delivered to their desks. In fact, part of the reason why Xinlan Jingcheng was able to get these things so quickly was precisely because Tianxin Group was one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in this **, and this batch of masks was also provided by Tianxin.

23:05 in the evening. Before returning home, Huang Yixin sent a letter to the US headquarters, reporting that SARS had not affected the company's normal business.

Huaxia News Service, April 8: Gong Xuan, spokesman for the Huaxia Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said that the Huaxia government did not hide the epidemic, and the health department quickly reported the problem in accordance with the existing regulations on the prevention and control of infectious diseases, and the epidemic has been effectively controlled.

April 9. Saturday.

7 a.m. Capital.

Huang Yixin got up and decided to clean up all the hygiene in the house. She gently stroked her son's head, feeling that there was nothing unusual about his body temperature, and breathed a sigh of relief. Then open all the doors and windows, ventilate, and sweep all corners of your home with one purpose: disinfect, disinfect, and disinfect again.

Huang Yixin didn't hire an aunt to clean up as usual, she only believed that she was healthy. At 10 o'clock, she made herself a cup worth 50 yuan a pack of banlangen, which is usually very cheap common medicine, and now it has been speculated many times the price, the National Development and Reform Commission issued a notice to strictly crack down on the coaxing of materials, and the ministries and commissions in Beijing, the municipal bureau, and the district bureau were fully dispatched, and the drugs from other places and the drugs in stock were supplied in large quantities, which slowly lowered some prices. 3 hours of busyness had already exhausted her.

8:30 a.m. Capital.

Huang Guangji has already arrived at the company's office in the South Third Ring Road of Beijing. He is the deputy general manager in charge of sales of Beijing Tianxin Pharmaceutical Technology Development Co., Ltd. Since turning it on in the morning, his phone has been ringing non-stop. Almost all the calls came from dealers, pharmacies and some medical institutions in Beijing that had business ties with Tianxin, and the content was roughly the same, requiring a large number of purchases of Tianxin Banlan Root Powder and Heat-clearing and Detoxification Oral Liquid. Although several workshops in the Tianxin factory have been working overtime around the clock, there is zero stock of these two medicines in the Tianxin warehouse at this time, and this situation has been going on for a week.

The Tianxin factory has stopped all the other drugs in several workshops that can produce these two drugs, and deployed raw materials all over the country, and only Banlangen has transferred 200,000 kilograms to start 24 hours a day without interruption.

"** type pneumonia" has become the word that Huang Guangji hears the most every day.

Travel Agency Manager's Diary:

I heard that in the past few days, the phenomenon of foreign tourists coming to China to travel to the group has also occurred from time to time, and the governments of many countries have warned their citizens to postpone the date of travel to China, Hong Kong, Singapore and other places as much as possible.

The Beijing City Tourism Bureau finally came out to speak. They have published a "Note on the Safest Tourist Destination in the World".

In this "Explanation", they informed domestic and foreign tourists of the following information: first, after learning from authoritative departments, the two cases of type ** pneumonia in Beijing were imported rather than primary; Second, the Beijing Municipal Government has set up a special leading group, and the Municipal Health Bureau has formulated a special work plan to make comprehensive arrangements for the prevention of ** type pneumonia; Third, the Beijing City Tourism Bureau has issued an urgent notice to all tourism enterprises to further attach great importance to tourism safety; Fourth, as the capital of China, the prevention and control of diseases has always been the focus of municipal care, with rich experience and a complete emergency system. Since the city received overseas tourists, there has been no spread of any infectious diseases, and the city is the safest tourist destination in the world.

Before going to work, my wife suddenly stopped me, handed me a big mask, and said to me, "Put it on, it's better to take precautions." ”

The World Health Organization (HO) doctor, who was the first to discover the mysterious disease of type ** pneumonia (SARS), died on the 9th, becoming the first WHO person to die of type ** pneumonia.

46-year-old Italian doctor Carlo . Urbani is an infectious disease expert at WHO. The W.H.O., a U.N. agency, said he contracted the virus while working in Vietnam, was treated in Thailand and died.

Sunday, April 10.

10 a.m. Capital.

The conference room of Tianxin Pharmaceutical Group. Huang Guangzhi attended a special meeting of the company for type ** pneumonia. At the meeting, Ms. Su Ning, chairman of the group, solemnly mentioned the corporate slogan of "medical skills are benevolent skills, and Tianxin is my heart". All pharmaceutical products of Tianxin Group are required to ensure the market demand for Banlan root powder and heat-clearing and detoxification oral liquid under the premise of not increasing prices, reducing processes, and not reducing quality during the first period.

Tianxin Pharmaceutical Group, where Huang Guangzhi belongs, began to shift its supply focus from Lingnan to Beijing. The factory is still producing day and night. However, almost all the banlan root powder and heat-clearing and detoxification oral liquid were immediately pulled away before they could be put into storage after passing the inspection.

3 p.m. Capital.

According to Huang Yixin's daily routine, the afternoon will be her exercise time. However, the company's phone call luàn her plan: "This afternoon there will be a joint meeting between the human resources department and the public relations department and several other departments, please arrive on time." ”

Putting down the phone, she had a strange feeling that, in Xinlan's almost authentic American style, the company rarely arranged official business for employees on their days off. However, after saying a few words of advice to her son, she still ran to Xinlan Building.

This is a meeting of Xinlan Company on the prevention and control of the two sides of the Taiwan Strait and three places. The leadership of the Beijing branch reminded that "any employee of the company must be approved by the public relations department for the public relations and the news released to the outside world for SARS." ”

"Lianhe Zaobao" reported on April 10: A number of departments of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) have joined hands with citizens to carry out a territory-wide purge. In addition, the Hong Kong Food and Environmental Hygiene Department has started to use fines to control spitting in order to deter them, increasing the fine from a fixed amount of HK$600 to more than $1,000.

April 11th. Monday.

8:00 a.m. Pengcheng – Hong Kong.

Xue Zhixian got up earlier than usual and quickly got on the train to Luohu Customs. The carriage was full of people wearing masks, including himself. Xue Zhixian felt as if he was on a train full of patients.

The closer you are to Hong Kong, the more people are wearing masks. When the train finally arrived at the end point, Xue Zhixian found that Luohu Commercial City, which is close to the border inspection building, was full of people peddling masks. The cheapest price is 1 yuan for two.

Luohu Customs is contrary to the usual flow of people. The hurried customs clearance personnel were all wearing masks, and the border control personnel were also fully armed. All of them were solemn.

The customs clearance procedures were the same as before, except that at the Hong Kong checkpoint, he got two cards distributed by the Hong Kong government. This was the third day that Hong Kong had fully implemented the requirement for inbound travellers to declare their health conditions at all immigration control points.

"Will someone tick the box?" Someone behind him muttered. He didn't have time to think about it, and looked carefully at the card in his hand. One is the "Emergency Health Care Notice for Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome", which includes reminders for travelers and doctors, and two hotline numbers are published. The other is the "Health Declaration Form," which lists four symptoms: fever, cough, wheezing, and difficulty breathing. Once the card is ticked, the person who submitted the card will be taken to the hospital for quarantine and examination to make sure that they are not infected with the virus before leaving.

"Who's going to tick the box!" A man next to him muttered to himself again. Xue Zhixian also grinned lightly and quickly filled out the form.

No one was taken away. Everyone, including Xue Zhixian, breathed a sigh of relief.

Xue Zhixian finally set foot in Hong Kong. At this time, the original bustling streets have been sparsely populated, and the facial features of pedestrians have changed to eyes, ears and masks.

He began to feel a little awkward, as if he was wrapped in the "** type", and felt that everyone looked like a virus carrier. That feeling of insecurity came naturally. Along the way, he became very sensitive, and always subconsciously mōmō forehead, whether he had a fever, always cleared his throat, whether there was a sign of coughing.

Walking into the building where the company was located, Xue Zhixian smelled a familiar smell of disinfectant. The building management company has done a very careful job of disinfection, and the elevators alone have to be disinfected every half hour. In addition to disinfecting the workplace every day, the computer company he worked for also provided employees with disinfectant water to wash their hands. Despite this, Xue Zhixian and his colleagues still wore tight masks, and only put their mouths out when eating. Also, everyone brings their own lunch boxes. The conversation between colleagues is also inseparable from where new infected people have been discovered, where new prevention and control measures have been introduced, and whether the package of measures introduced by the mainland and Hong Kong governments can be effective.

8:30 a.m. Capital.

After Huang Yixin sent his son to kindergarten, he drove towards Xinlan Building. The Xinlan Mansion in the early morning is no different from the past. At the door, security guards stand on both sides, watching everyone who enters and exits.

Huang Yixin was a little impatient, eager to know how the masks and disinfection work were prepared. She walked briskly into the office. Fortunately, a few masks have been placed on her desk, and the heart that has been carrying it has finally stabilized a lot. She walked a few more steps to the bathroom and locker room, where the sink had been replaced with disinfectant soap, and a cartoon reminding her to wash her hands was posted next to the hand dryer not far away.

She turned around, paused in front of the shiny mirror, looked at herself in the mirror, who had been a little haggard after two days of busyness, sighed, and returned to the office to start the day's work.

19:50 p.m. Capital.

Wei Yunsong stayed in the room of the Kerry Apartment, which had been separated for more than ten days. The room was filled with a pungent smell of Longan 84. He thought he would feel better in the capital, but now the taste here seems to be no different from that in the Hong Kong office.

Wei Yunsong opened the browser, and a letter from the company caught his attention: "Because of SARS, we will have a special management plan in the short term, inviting analysts and researchers to work from home." The company will open full-capacity servers in Hong Kong to support multi-channel data transmission to ensure normal service to customers, please ask analysts and relevant project team personnel to open their own RASS and VPN systems, and keep in touch with the company's headquarters. ”

When Wei Yunsong, who was used to trapeze artists, worked in a closed office in his apartment for the first time, he seemed to have a feeling of retreat and cultivation, and he was a little lonely. Adu's "Let Go" floated from the speakers, and the words SARS flashed back to his mind.

At 10 p.m., at the same moment every day, Wei Yunsong leaned back in an easy chair in the apartment and began to test his temperature and saliva reactions. Thankfully, Huang Sè, still Huang Sè, the same result as the previous 3 days. He put four test sheets together.

Lightly mō the cross in front of xiōng, "mygod!" Tomorrow I can go to the office freely and cleanly. After four days of observation, Wei Yunsong had enough evidence to tell every colleague in the office who saw him: "I am a healthy person. ”

Travel Agency Manager's Diary:

As soon as I got to work today, my secretary told me that there was an urgent notice from the Tourism Bureau, and I wanted to go to the website of the Beijing Tourism Bureau.

Turn on the computer, enter the official website of the Beijing City Tourism Bureau, and see the four big words "Emergency Notice", click on the content, and the travel agencies are related:

Due to the impact of the US-Iraq war and ** pneumonia on China's tourism industry, in order to grasp the relevant situation in a timely manner and provide a basis for the relevant parties to formulate countermeasures, please fill in the online report on the decline in the source of tourists caused by the above reasons and the decrease in the source of outbound tourists of Chinese citizens from April 11.

Throughout the day, the phone of the unit rarely rings, and occasionally there is a phone call, but it is only tourists who inquire about short-term tours, and there is no consultation phone number to the south or Southeast Asia. In previous years, at this time, the phone would be flooded and colleagues would be busy.

"Forget about the holiday, what do you say, Mr. Shi," Xiao Guo in the office joked. Everyone laughed and seemed to approve, and I glared at her impatiently, and she looked at me strangely, like looking at a patient with ** type pneumonia.

Huaxia News Service, April 11: The Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention announced the "Technical Plan for the Prevention and Treatment of ** Pneumonia" on the Internet today. According to the center, type ** pneumonia refers to a respiratory infectious disease that occurs in some parts of China and is transmitted through droplets in the air at close range, the pathogen is not yet clear. It is mainly manifested as pneumonia, and there is a significant aggregation phenomenon in homes and hospitals.

April 12th. Tuesday.

0:00 a.m. Hong Kong.

Xue Zhixian finally returned to his home in Hong Kong. He turned on the TV and pressed 5 channels in a row to see what was related to "** type". The news is showing the closure of Hong Kong's Department of Health (DH) to Hong Kong's Department of Health (DH), a residential complex in Ngau Tau Kok, Kowloon Bay, which is the hardest-hit area of SARS in Hong Kong. There was a fear in everyone's eyes.

Amoy Huā Garden is only two stops away from the building where Xue Zhixian works. Fortunately, he thought, Hong Kong is a place where every inch of land is at a premium, and there are many high-rise buildings between the two buildings. Finally, I fell asleep groggily.

At 7:25 a.m., the crisp sound of the alarm clock woke Xue Zhixian from his dream. Before going out, Xue Zhi first drank a bowl of Chinese medicine to prevent **. The medicine was sent by a friend, and it was taken once a day in the morning and evening, and it was said that it was an emergency product launched by Tianxin Group, which could effectively control ...... I forgot how to say that word, anyway, it seems to work well, he half-believed, but he thinks it's better than nothing. For half a month, this has become a part of his daily life.

In the afternoon, Xue Zhixian decided to go to the nearby PARKnSHOP supermarket to buy some daily necessities. Before he could go inside, he saw many people coming out with large bags and small bags. The supermarket is even more crowded, the queue in front of the payment desk is very long, and the most shopping cart is rice oil food. It only took him a few minutes to select the goods, but it took him more than half an hour to pay.

On the way home, Xue Zhixian met a person who was very tightly covered. The mask-wearing man (gender indecipherable) was carrying two tote bags, covered by a huge plastic bag, with only a vertical slit on the bag at the face. "Isn't this the one in the suit?" He wanted to laugh, but he couldn't.

Three hours later, Xue Zhixian's mobile phone rang with a short message: "Leslie Cheung committed suicide by jumping off the building." (**It's late, Leslie Cheung also lived a few more days...... Ahem. )

Death is death, war, plague, sudden death of idols, maybe it's the end of the world. Leslie Cheung's old songs began to play on the TV, and he suddenly wanted to call home.

9 a.m. Capital.

Wei Yunsong's first day after returning to the office.

Every 3 hours, SARS survey data from within the company flashes on the computer screen. It's a shot that can only be seen in American disaster films, and it makes people think about what special action is being done by headquarters. Yes, the headquarters informed Wei Yunsong that the company had launched a SARS special operation team, and the headquarters required personnel from all over the country to give timely feedback on the data.

This crisis management system was established by the head office after 9.11, and I didn't expect it to come in handy so quickly.

Twenty minutes later, Wei Yunsong received another latest notice from the headquarters: in order to ensure the personal safety of employees, the company has launched a special fund to subsidize the travel expenses of employees on business trips and medical relief expenses for employees who are untimely.

The assistant sent a stack of forms and waited for Wei Yunsong's instructions. These forms are all SARS-related – application for funds, employee health registration......

"Life is above all else," Wei Yunsong sighed and shook his head slightly.

3 p.m. Capital.

Xinlan's work rhythm is still as casual and busy as usual. Huang Yixin felt that today seemed to be April Fool's Day, with colleagues flying all over the sky about ** type sex, and the office that had been soaked in the horror and tension of SARS for many days had a little more laughter. Huang Yixin added a special post on the company's internal website: on a pair of beautiful mm masks, they were painted with sexy beauty chún and huge nostrils eager to breathe fresh air.

"If you always scare yourself, you don't need SARS, you will be scared to death." A colleague next to him said with a smile. Huang Yixin thought of the doctors and nurses on TV who looked calm at their posts, and his heart was much more stable.

9 p.m. Capital.

Tianxin South Third Ring Pharmacy. After closing, the clerk Zhang Xiaofen counted that this pharmacy of less than 250 square meters sold 25 pieces of banlangen (each containing 100 boxes of boxes) today, setting a sales record for the pharmacy. Under normal circumstances, the sales volume of this pharmacy is only about 10 pieces a month. Since mid-March, the demand for banlangen in Lingnan and other places has gradually stabilized. In Beijing, due to rumors that hospitals have admitted ** patients one after another, the sales of banlangen powder in pharmacies have begun to rise sharply.

"Lianhe Zaobao" reported on April 12: An employee of the Singapore branch of mobile phone manufacturer Motorola was confirmed to be infected with type ** pneumonia. After that, the Singapore government decreed that the company's 305 workers must stay at home and undergo quarantine. "At present, more than 50 people in Singapore have been infected with type ** pneumonia, and at least two of them have died," the report said. Singapore has now closed all schools and ordered 1,500 employees to go into quarantine. ”

April 13th. Wednesday.

10 a.m. Capital.

Xinlan employees were each given a copy of the SARS prevention manual. Huang Yixin carefully looked at the text on each page and emailed some key points to his friends to share.

Helena, President of Xinlan Greater China. William personally sent a letter to all employees: "The company will make every effort to ensure the safety of all employees, and also ask all employees to ensure their own safety, the company will pay close attention to the situation and take the most effective action, please do not panic too much, and please reduce the number of people entering and leaving public places." ”

At 11 o'clock, Huang Yixin learned that the original plan for the Xinlan (Hong Kong) technical team and the Xinlan (Wucheng) technical team to come to Beijing for exchange was cancelled today.

14:20 p.m. Capital.

Wei Yunsong contacted local offices and organizations to hold a conference call to pay attention to the operation of several companies listed in Hong Kong in the mainland of China. In early April, when listed companies and industry organizations are desperately throwing off their annual reports, Wei Yunsong must keep in touch with analysts from the Hong Kong head office to keep abreast of the latest developments.

The other end of the phone trembled as if it were an extraterrestrial sound, and the electric bō seemed to shake the nerves of some kind of virus, making them active. During the nearly 30-minute conference call, he subconsciously covered the corners of his mouth with his hands many times, and even felt funny to himself.

17:10 p.m.

Tianxin South Third Ring Pharmacy, although it is almost time to get off work, the number of customers seems to be slowly increasing. Zhang Xiaofen also helped grab the medicine at the counter.

An old man in his 50s walked into the pharmacy and handed Zhang a small note, which was a small prescription with six or seven flavors of Chinese medicine, Zhang Xiaofen took a general look, it was a traditional Chinese medicine that clears away heat and dispels evil spirits, because this is a commonly used medicine in the chūn season, and the amount of medicine is small, so it did not attract too much attention from Zhang Xiaofen. But then several people who came in also took similar prescriptions, usually 6 to 10 flavored medicines, and the price was 4 to 7 yuan a serving. Zhang Xiaofen felt very strange, and after asking a customer who grabbed medicine, she learned that Zheng Fǔ had announced a traditional Chinese medicine formula for the prevention of ** type pneumonia, which was said to be provided by their Tianxin Group, and was officially announced after being jointly recognized by the Ministry of Health, the Food and Drug Administration and other relevant departments.

Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, April 13: Premier Wen Chengxi of the State Council presided over an executive meeting of the State Council today to study the prevention and treatment of ** type pneumonia. The meeting believed that after the outbreak of type ** pneumonia in a few areas such as Lingnan, the epidemic situation has been effectively controlled.

Zhang Wenhang, Minister of Health of China, said through television media today that so far, 1,190 people have been confirmed to have type ** pneumonia in the mainland of China, of which 46 have died. He specified that the number of patients is mainly concentrated in Lingnan.

Travel Agency Manager's Diary:

These days I went on a business trip to Vietnam. Since I still had some things to do in Yongcheng, the capital of Lingxi Province, I didn't take a direct flight to Hanoi, but took a train to Yongcheng.

Yesterday, before leaving, my wife stuffed my suitcase with things like banlangen powder and a dozen masks.

The train departed from Jingcheng West Railway Station at 10:30 a.m., and I found that the passengers on the train today were sparsely la, and many sleepers were empty in the carriage I was in. The conductor told me that the same was true for the other carriages.

Based on my many years of experience in traveling, this train should have been overcrowded during this time, and most of them were tourists going to the south during the chūn warm huā season, which is rare today.

"It's not all infectious diseases, who is not afraid of what happens." The little conductor explained to me while cleaning.

The train continued to move forward, the sun outside the car was unusually bright, and the air was filled with the breath of chūn heaven. How can there be so many viruses in such a beautiful air?

When the train arrived at Shizhuang, some passengers came up one after another. As soon as the two passengers walked into the car I was in, they excitedly shouted: "I really didn't expect that this train could make up for the sleeper, it's strange." ”

This morning, the train arrived in Yongcheng on time. I have been to Yongcheng many times, it is a beautiful city, and the people of Yongcheng have always been full of smiles and enthusiasm in my impression. But when I walked out of the station, I rarely saw a smile and enthusiasm, but a mask full of eyes, white huāhuā, on everyone's face. Everyone only has one pair of eyes.

Walking on the streets of Yongcheng, whether riding a motorcycle, driving a car, or walking, almost everyone wears a mask.

I found that òng made me inexplicable.

"Why don't you wear a mask?" It was the reminder of an oncoming young man that made me notice that I seemed to be an offbeat.

In the evening, at the dinner table, I asked an old friend in Yongcheng if the situation was really that terrible.

He smiled and said, "What do you say, if it's really that serious, what's the use of wearing a mask?" It's just that everyone's herd mentality is making trouble, and most people would rather believe what they have than what they don't. ”

CCTV reported on April 14: Zhang Wenhang, Minister of Health of China, said that the ** pneumonia epidemic in Lingnan and other places has been effectively controlled, and "it is safe to work, live and travel in China." Zhang Wenhang said that the World Health Organization has canceled the notification of Beijing as an epidemic area.

April 15th. Friday.

10:40 a.m. Capital.

Huang Yixin once again reminded the managers of various departments of Xinlan that if the company's employees are unwell, they can not come to work after reporting to the personnel department for the record. In order to alleviate the psychological pressure caused by SARS to employees, the public relations department will try to avoid talking about SARS.

In the evening, her son said to her in a very immature voice that the teacher also talked about how to prevent "** type" today. In order to make his son safer, Huang Yixin decided to put the child at his grandmother's house in Chongwenmen for a while. She told her son: listen to the teacher and have courage.

Travel Agency Manager's Diary:

I entered Vietnam directly from Lingxi, and I didn't have any major troubles when clearing customs, which was much easier than I thought. Before passing the customs, I imagined that because of the ** pneumonia incident, I would definitely encounter cumbersome examinations.

"Don't die abroad", the friend who came to see me off joked with me before parting.

In April, the weather in Hanoi was already very hot, and I could still feel some tension as I walked through the streets of Hanoi. There are very few pedestrians on the streets, and it is even more difficult to see tourists from all over the world, and the pedestrians walking on the streets are also deliberately avoiding conversation, and the restaurants and shops are deserted, and there seems to be something indescribable in the air.

A Vietnamese boy from a university in Hanoi who accompanied me told me that the first case of type ** pneumonia detected in Vietnam was on March 16 this year, a 48-year-old American businessman who had developed symptoms and was admitted to the hospital after returning to Hanoi from Hong Kong, and 20 other medical staff were subsequently found to have the same symptoms. The American businessman died in a Hong Kong hospital on March 23.

Today, Vietnam announced the outbreak, announcing that Vietnam has so far detected 59 cases of type ** pneumonia, of which 4 people have died.

"This season, it is the time when tourists are weaving, but this year, many tourists who plan to come to Vietnam have canceled their trips, and many tour groups have also been temporarily canceled. The young man's tone was full of pity and helplessness.

Later, I came to Xialong Bay, where the sea, sandy beaches, blue sky, and white clouds once attracted the attention of countless tourists, but today there are very few tourists here.

In the evening, the secretary made a long-distance call and told me that Sun Gang, deputy director of the China National Tourism Administration, said in a briefing to the staff of the representative offices of foreign tourism and civil aviation enterprises in Beijing that the safety and health of tourism in various parts of China are completely guaranteed, and that China is still the most ideal fertile land for investment and the safest tourist destination.

Beijing, 15 Apr (ZXS) -- Sun Gang, deputy director of the China National Tourism Administration, said here today that just after some countries recently issued a travel admonition order on the ** type pneumonia in China, a large number of overseas tourists, including foreign tourists, still come to China for sightseeing. Up to now, the China National Tourism Administration has not received a single case of tourists infected with type ** pneumonia.

April 16th. Saturday.

"Lianhe Zaobao" reported on April 16: A spokesman for the World Health Organization said in Suixian that there is evidence that the ** pneumonia epidemic in China has been controlled, and the number of new cases is also declining; "This is very good news".

On the same day, the Hong Kong government announced that the number of cases of pneumonia type ** increased by 27, including 5 medical staff and 8 residents of Amoy Huā Garden, bringing the cumulative number of cases to 761.

April 17th. Sunday.

20:30 p.m. City.

The 22nd Hong Kong Film Awards Presentation Ceremony is underway. Xue Zhixian will spend the last day of the weekend in Pengcheng. He only wants to stay at home. His home is on the outskirts of Pengcheng and has hardly been affected by the ** type. He felt that only here could he maintain his daily life before the virus attacked.

In fact, before SARS spread to Hong Kong, he thought he would be just a spectator. In Hong Kong, it's just that some people who have relatives in the mainland are busy sending banlan root, white vinegar, etc. But at the beginning of March, a friend gradually sent an email to Xue Zhixian, telling him the symptoms of type ** pneumonia and the prevention and treatment measures that should be taken. There are also more and more media reports. Xue Zhixian really became uneasy about SARS in early April. The Prince of Wales Hospital in Sha Tin, Hong Kong, has the first case of infection. The virus spread in Hong Kong almost overnight. Hong Kong, known as Asia's number one shopping paradise, has gradually become a city where medical masks are popular, restaurants and shopping malls are empty, and schools are closed for the holidays.

Before going to bed, Xue Zhi hung up the phone to a friend in the capital. Friend said: "Not so nervous, the virus left the human body 3 hours and died, tens of millions of people in the big city, the same as in the fucai, do you have this blessing?" ”

On the same day, Yue Xiaoqiu, director of the Department of Disease Control of the Ministry of Health, said at a joint press conference held by the Ministry of Health and the Beijing Municipal Health Bureau that as of April 5, there were 1,247 cases of type ** pneumonia infection in mainland China, including 51 deaths. Among them, there were 19 cases of ** pneumonia infection in Beijing, all of which were imported cases, of which 4 died. In addition, 1 new case of ** pneumonia was found in Dongfang City.

Wen Chengxi, member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and premier of the Government Council, visited the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention on the 17th. At 4 o'clock in the afternoon, Wen Chengxi and his entourage came to the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, and after visiting the poison control center and the virus laboratory, they had a discussion with leading members of the Ministry of Health and some well-known medical experts. He pointed out that Huaxia Zhengfǔ is fully capable of controlling the spread of type ** pneumonia.

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It seems that the whole country is already starting to "have a good situation". However, when Xiao Chen came to Liaodu Mall, he found that there were still a large number of citizens queuing up to buy white vinegar, and the long queue was far away......

Xiao Chen suddenly frowned.