After a long period of busyness, Fan Wuxian forgot one thing, a very important thing.

Although it is said that since Fan Wu's rebirth, many important events at home and abroad are clearly remembered, it cannot be denied that it is normal to have some omissions occasionally, especially those events that are not very closely related to making money.

When Fan Wuxian heard Ziqi say that Shen Ying had a cold in Guangzhou and had been coughing, he never thought that a huge disaster spreading across the country was quietly taking shape.

In January this year, two cases of pneumonia of unknown cause occurred in Heyuan City and Zhongshan City in Guangdong Province, and the Guangdong Provincial Department of Health promptly dispatched clinical medicine and epidemiological experts to conduct clinical and epidemiological investigations. According to the investigation, the earliest case occurred on November 16 last year.

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

Before the Spring Festival, in Guangzhou, a grain of invisible virus spreads in the air, and if you inhale it, you will have symptoms such as fever in your lungs, and you will be "isolated" to the door of death.

Through text messages and phone calls, citizens have been telling the horror of this virus and talking about this strange disease. Later, doctors named it acute infectious surname [***] type pneumonia, English name SARS, people called it [***].

The disease seems to be even more terrifying than the plague, and as a virulent infectious disease, it can be transmitted by breathing. People outside the city of Guangzhou spread the word of mouth, some people were infected with [***] and quarantined, and some people have died of the disease. What is [***]? At first, no one knew, only that if they were infected, they might die.

Rumors spread faster and more terrifyingly than [***]. Guangzhou masks are out of stock, Banlangen is out of stock, white vinegar is 1,000 yuan a bottle, a female reporter who interviewed [***] later wrote the book "On the Front Line of the SARS Epidemic", which described such a situation, she set off from home to Guangzhou, when leaving, her mother insisted that she bring some Banlangen, she went to several pharmacies to ask, Banlangen has been out of stock a few days ago. The owner of the pharmacy said that they were all bought back by his family members who worked in Guangdong and sent them to Guangdong. When her brother got on the plane, his brother bought her five bottles of white vinegar.

Because the cause of the disease is unknown, it has led to the panic of most people, and rumors have spread everywhere, and the common people have accumulated a large number of daily necessities, rice, flour, grain, oil, and salt, which are out of stock for a while, which has aggravated the panic of the common people.

During the 2003 Chinese New Year, which was not officially confirmed, rumors spread like a virus. There are rumors of the plague, and there are rumors of biological attacks. Walking on the streets, the people who gathered together as in previous years did not have peace in their hearts.

Such pictures began to appear in the media, in the CITIC Plaza in Guangzhou at night, a girl carefully fastened her lover's mask from behind, and the two faces that should have been sweet were tense.

The festive atmosphere of the New Year has not yet disappeared in the rumors, and the reporters received information that the Guangzhou Municipal Axe is going to hold a press conference. At the meeting, the spokesman announced the situation of [***] pneumonia in Guangzhou.

According to the spokesperson, since the end of last year, there have been cases of pneumonia type [***] in some parts of Guangdong. Since 12 January this year, a few critically ill patients from other places have been transferred to some large hospitals in Guangzhou for treatment.

Around the Spring Festival, local cases began to appear in the Guangzhou area. As of today, more than 100 such cases have been detected in Guangzhou, many of which are medical personnel.

The alarm sounded from Guangzhou.

After receiving Ziqi's call, Fan Wuxian immediately dialed Shen Ying back and asked her about her situation.

"Why did you catch a cold all of a sudden? Was it okay when you left—" Fan asked a little strangely.

"Ahem, I don't know, it seems that there is an epidemic of pneumonia in Guangzhou, maybe it is infected." Shen Ying's voice seemed a little weak, and her coughing voice was also a little sluggish, which made Fan Wuxian's heart tighten.

"Epidemic pneumonia in Guangzhou?" After Fan Wuxian heard this, he remembered something.

"Well, it is said that many people have been quarantined, I am planning to fly back, if it weren't for the fact that I didn't have a fever and didn't go to the outpatient clinic, it is estimated that I would probably have been registered for quarantine, and now people in Guangzhou City are panicking, and they all say that it is the plague or something-cough-cough-" Shen Ying coughed again.

"I'm afraid it's much more serious than pneumonia and plague-" Fan Wuzhi couldn't think of the disaster of [***] pneumonia that happened in most of China this year, and he suddenly became a little worried.

A while earlier, he still remembered that there was such a thing, so he also talked to Boss Zhu about strengthening the prevention of infectious diseases, building a large-scale hospital for the treatment of infectious diseases, etc., and Fan's Investment Group and Zhengaxe also cooperated to establish a large-scale infectious disease prevention and control hospital.

Now considering that Shen Ying is very likely to be infected with this terrible disease, Fan Wuxi's heart is also up and down, especially worried that Ziqi has also been infected by her in the past, and it will be even more troublesome at that time, so he immediately decided, "You try to stay in the room as much as possible, keep isolated from the staff, and I will fly over to pick you up immediately by private jet." ”

"Don't be so nervous, right? I guess it's just a bad cold—" Shen Ying replied weakly.

Fan Wuxi immediately objected, "You don't know the seriousness of the situation!" Be obedient and stay! I'll be there in no time! ”

Before Fan Wuxian put down the phone, the landline on the desk also rang, but it was the person in charge of Fan's Investment Group's branch in Guangzhou who called, and he informed Fan Wuxian of the outbreak of infectious diseases in Guangzhou, and said that business has been affected recently, but e-commerce has developed greatly.

"Many of our customers are now negotiating and ordering through our private network, after all, face-to-face communication has been affected during the epidemic period, but the same can be done through online video conferencing and online orders." The person in charge of the Guangzhou branch reported to Fan Wuxi.

On this point, it is understandable that Fan Wuxian is in fact the public's understanding of e-commerce has changed a lot before and after [***].

Due to the rapid and violent spread of [***], everyone is at risk, and the traditional business model has been seriously impacted, people basically do not go out, then office, shopping and other behaviors and business activities have naturally shrunk seriously, and the fast and convenient e-commerce has been welcomed by the public.

From the point of view of shopping, people no longer have to go to crowded stores and supermarkets, directly through the network store for business activities, and a variety of business meetings, can also be through broadband Internet dedicated communication and negotiation, saving the suffering of personnel rushing, [***] period caused by the decline of personnel flow, objectively greatly promote the development of e-commerce.

Later survey results showed that in the past, only one-third of the people who knew about e-commerce were relatively knowledgeable, and the majority of the public was only ignorant of e-commerce, and they did not know much about it. In terms of personal use of e-commerce technology and e-commerce business in the past, two-thirds of the respondents said that they had not used it, and more than sixty percent of the public had not used e-commerce technology and e-commerce business before, which shows that the popularity of e-commerce is not very high.

In terms of companies that have used e-commerce technology and e-commerce business in the past, two-thirds of the respondents said that they have used e-commerce in their applications and that their companies are much better than individuals, and the number of companies that have used e-commerce is about twice as many as individuals.

In the past, due to the influence of various conditions, including the lack of publicity of e-commerce itself, personal ability problems, economic conditions and other reasons, the popularization of e-commerce was not very in place. The popularity of e-commerce by individuals is not high, and the situation of companies is better than that of individuals, but it is not very optimistic.

And during the [***] period, the use of online businesses by individuals increased by more than two percent.

Since the outbreak of [***], the number of visits to the portal has also grown rapidly during this period, especially the number of visits to Huafeng.com, the number of news subscribers has soared by more than three percent, the number of registered users and the number of SMS users and sending has increased by more than three percent, the average page views of Huafeng's online mall have increased by more than two percent, and the average page views of online games have also increased by nearly two percent, and the chat room has created the highest record of 100,000 people online at the same time.

In terms of the company's use of online business, Fan's investment group can be described as a model, the company's corporate website to promote enterprises, introduce products, customer service, online sales, online communication, online advertising, etc. as the main content, in order to provide comprehensive Internet services for internal units, to provide timely, accurate, rich corporate information and product information for external users for the purpose, Fan's investment group invests nearly 10 million yuan every year to build, maintain and promote the website, and now Fan's investment group's corporate website application in [***] on the occasion of the arrival of [***]. , which plays a role in ensuring that the company's earnings continue to grow.

It's just that at this time, Fan Wuxian didn't care about saying anything to him, but said that the company's employees should pay attention to epidemic prevention, and the company should allocate special funds for epidemic prevention purposes in the company and the external environment.

"The health of the company's employees comes first, and we must be vigilant at this point, especially you executives, try not to participate in the gathering activities if you have nothing to do, and there is no way to do it if your performance may decline, I can understand it, after all, this time the epidemic is very serious-" Fan Wuxian repeatedly admonished.

"Thank you Mr. Fan for your concern." The other party was very excited, and did not forget to add, "We try to solve most of the problems on the Internet, and try to ensure that this year's mission is not too affected." ”

Fan Wuxian gave a few more instructions, and then asked his assistant to arrange a private jet to prepare a direct flight to Guangzhou to pick up Shen Ying and the others.

At the same time, Fan Wuxian called his father Fan Heng again and asked what was going on?

"I don't know?!" Fan Heng turned out to be dazed, obviously not receiving any report on this issue, and he also said, "It's just a rumor, right?" Otherwise, why didn't the health department report upwards? The higher-ups probably don't know the details of this—"

O bureaucrats, bureaucrats!

Fan Wuxian shook his head and said to his father Fan Heng, "You'd better take the initiative to care about this matter, and then ventilate with the higher-ups, this is a big deal, judging from the current situation, this disease has not yet found a means to control it, the infection is extremely strong, the mortality rate is extremely high, and if you are not careful, it is easy to cause unpredictable consequences!" ”

"At this time—" Fan Heng pondered for a moment before he said, "Then I'll find out first!" ”

The reason why Fan Heng hesitated for a moment was mainly because the work of the Ministry of Health was not under his own control, and the people from the Ministry of Health had a holiday with Fan Wuxian before, so both sides did not look at each other very much, so Fan Heng never interfered in the affairs over there.

Another point is also very important, that is, the Ministry of Health has just changed its new leadership, and everyone is busy running for officials and high-level relations, and they may not have the leisure to care about things far away in Guangzhou, and even if they do, they will not attach great importance to it.

At present, the most important thing is naturally the political axe work report and the political axe election action in March, and the other thing is naturally the convening of the people's congress and the convening of the political association, which are the biggest things.

However, since his son Fan Wuxian attaches so much importance to it, Fan Heng naturally can't take it lightly, especially when he heard that several patients have died in a short period of time and no effective treatment has been found, Fan Heng still decided to ask.

In the face of the Politburo Standing Committee and the executive vice premier, the attitude of the people in the Ministry of Health is still very correct, and the minister personally said that everything is under control, please rest assured that the leaders are, and also said that the new leadership of the Ministry of Health is working hard to forge ahead, and has contacted the international health organization HO to cooperate on this issue and strive to solve the problem as soon as possible.

The fact is that yesterday the Ministry of Health sent a request to the HO to assist in the fight against SARS.

Today, the Guangdong Provincial Department of Health held a press conference to report that between November 16, 2002 and February 9, 2003, there were 305 cases of pneumonia of type [***], of which 5 people died.

The HO has issued a brief global warning about the acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) in Guangdong, China, through a network system established by a team of American scientists a decade ago to rapidly notify the world of emerging diseases.

Everything doesn't seem to be very serious.

Fan Heng inquired in detail about the situation and asked for relevant information, which was sent to the Politburo for review as a report of the Ministry of Health on the prevention and control of SARS.

(To be continued)