Chapter 567 - 567 Ebola Outbreak (Part II)

The Ebola outbreak was so rapid and unpredictable that the Japanese government was overwhelmed. Hosokawa Gohei, who has just taken over as prime minister for less than half a year, is almost sad overnight, and every day there is a report of new patient numbers on his desk, and he can feel the pressure.

His secretary was also worried, and said to the prime minister: "Hosokawa-sama, the spread of the virus has become more serious, and because of the unfavorable control and the panic of the people, our social order is collapsing, some illegal elements are smashing and looting in the streets, and because the Metropolitan Police Department is worried that sending police forces to densely populated areas may lead to infection, so it has been unable to act, which has also led to greater chaos." Many civilians have been violated, and many have even died. ”

Hosokawa Gohei was also helpless, he said: "Naturally, I also want to save the people from fire and water, but with the current situation, I can't even go home to see my wife and children, so I am isolated in Nagata Town." At this time, you can't blame anyone for not contributing enough, after all, everyone cherishes their own lives. It's just that those of us who hold the public weapons are ashamed to be unable to fulfill our duties, and can only watch chaos and death happen. ”

"We have invited medical workers from all over the world to devote themselves to the research on the fight against the Ebola virus, especially when China conquered the mad virus in Iraq, there must be a solution, and we need to stick to it now and try our best to maintain it," the secretary said. ”

Hosokawa Gohee was pessimistic, saying: "At that time, the reason why the Chinese were able to develop a vaccine against the mad virus was mainly to get a person who was immune to the virus and obtained serum from his body, and now where do we go to find such a person?" Moreover, most countries in the world are afraid of us, and even have interrupted flights to Japan, and in their opinion, Japan is just trapped on an isolated island to fend for itself, and as long as it does not run out and harm them, everything will be fine. ”

When he said this, Hosokawa Goxi's face turned red, obviously very angry. These days, he has not been in contact with some foreign heads of state, but these foreign heads of state are either vain and wronged, saying that they are very sympathetic and will do their best to help, but they have not shown the slightest performance in action.

Until now, only a few countries, including the United States, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Sweden, China, Canada, and New Zealand, have come to Japan to provide medical assistance at risk. Because the outbreak of the virus in Japan is too strong, there are too many patients, and the number of medical personnel is very insufficient, even the nurses who care for the patients are greatly short. Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has also urgently transferred more staff to Japan in the hope of helping Japan tide over the difficult time. But what is even more troubling is that because of the highly contagious nature of the Ebola virus, even a small negligence can cause health care workers to catch the virus, followed by a high chance of death, and the more nervous the health care workers are, the greater the chance of making mistakes.

Ebola virus has been discovered since the seventies, and there are actually many research institutions that have obtained virus samples, but there are almost no institutions that have achieved research results over the years, and even many medical experts are very negative, thinking that it is difficult for them to develop a vaccine against Ebola virus in a relatively short period of time.

Hosokawa is extremely worried, as the number in his report is getting bigger and bigger, and it is estimated that it will not be long before the number of Ebola infections may grow from thousands to tens of thousands. And considering that the virus has a 50%-90% fatality rate, at least half of the people will die, which would be a devastating blow to Japan.

The terrible thing is that if the development of the epidemic cannot be controlled, more and more people will die, and some journalists have said that the Ebola virus outbreak is likely to be a terrible epidemic comparable to the 1918 Spanish flu and the medieval Black Death, and the Spanish flu is a terrible disease that killed tens of millions of people. Although the Ebola virus was not transmitted by airborne droplets like the Spanish flu, and the medical protection at the time was rudimentary, the more powerful lethality of the Ebola virus was enough for people.

Not to mention tens of millions of deaths in Japan, even if millions of people die from the virus, the blow to the country will be devastating. Due to the spread of the virus, Japan's economic life has come to a standstill, and the operation of major factories has been suspended, and schools and some government and public institutions have also ceased operations. In order to avoid the spread of the virus, people stay at home and do not go out for fear of contracting the virus outside.

In the modern economic situation, as long as factories and companies shut down for a week, it can cause immeasurable economic losses, and Japanese companies risk a large number of defaults, unable to deliver their own products to customers, and the convoy that provides raw materials for production in Japan does not dare to enter Japan for fear of virus infection. For a time, Japan entered an extremely embarrassing situation, the world's second economic power, almost lost all its economic capacity, only a few counties and cities where the Ebola virus has not yet appeared still retain some production capacity, but because of the paralysis of major ports, they can't send it out even if they want to.

Fearing the rapid spread of the virus, logistics in Japan have largely come to a standstill. Industries that use roads and railways for transportation have also been greatly affected, with the exception of essential foodstuffs such as grain and vegetables, which have to be transported head-on, and any less important products have been shelved and no longer transported by transport companies.

Japan's grain self-sufficiency rate is less than 30 percent, and the self-sufficiency rate of other vegetables, fruits, meat, eggs, and milk is even more miserable. A large number of small plots of land are used for rice production, but other agricultural products are underproduced due to limited land. Especially now that Japan's agricultural production has been hit and it is difficult to guarantee external transportation, Japan expects that even if the virus does not hit Japan too hard, the arrival of famine may cause Japan to suffer huge losses.

There is no way, if a famine breaks out in the world's second largest economic country, I am afraid that it will become an international laughing stock, and in order to ensure its own food supply, Japan has to apply to China, which is relatively close to China, to use large aircraft to airdrop food to Japan. The cost is quite high, but today with the exception of China, which has both a huge supply of food and a large number of heavy transport aircraft, no other country can afford to meet Japan's needs.

At this time, it is impossible for Qi Yiming to get China to refuse Japan's request, after all, this is also a matter of humanitarian aid, and if it does not help, China's international image may be ugly. In addition, China has also asked Japan for a large amount of money to buy these foods, and Japan has no choice but to pinch its nose and admit it. Whoever let no country's cargo ships dare to take the risk to come to Japan at this time, even if they want to make a fortune, whether Japan's port facilities can function normally is still a huge problem.

The Chinese Air Force has built a strategic and tactical transport air force second only to the United States, with more than 200 large strategic transport aircraft Y-20 and more than 400 Y-9 medium transport aircraft.

In order to avoid the spread of the virus, the transport plane will not land at the Japanese airport, but will directly drop the supplies at the established airdrop site. In order for Japan to provide China with these food and other relief supplies, it spent several times the market price and paid high transportation costs before China agreed to make this trip for Japan.

Hundreds of Y-20s were urgently requisitioned, and supplies were also sent to the bases of these transport aviation units, loaded onto the cargo holds of the planes, and random groups of transport planes took off one after another. At the same time, HNA also sent land-based F-14CNs to escort the Air Force's transport aircraft.

When they crossed the center line of the East China Sea and were about to enter Japanese airspace, the Chinese fighters turned around and turned back, and these red Tomcats did not go through the air refueling, and it is estimated that they will not be able to return after going to Japan, and even in the face of an unprecedented disaster, Japan will not allow Chinese fighters to fly above their heads.

Not to be outdone, the Japanese dispatched their F-15J fighters to take over the work of the F-14CN to escort the Chinese transport planes. In the past, Japan's Air Self-Defense Force has actually done no less things to accompany Chinese military planes cruising in the East China Sea, but this time it is escorting Chinese military planes, which really makes them feel a sense of time and space confusion.

A large number of Y-20 Kunpeng transport planes flew to different cities in the Japanese archipelago, lowered their altitudes, and after the tailgates opened, began to drop grain, vegetables and other supplies downward. These hundreds of transport planes can provide Japan with nearly 1,000 tons of supplies at a time, although it does not seem to be a lot of money, but for Japan, which is soon facing a shortage of food, it is really a relief in the snow.

So much so that some Japanese media ignored the fact that China had taken a large amount of commissions in it, highly praised China's humanitarian spirit, and shouted Sino-Japanese goodwill and friendship, saying that China and Japan should work together to tide over difficulties.

It's just that if they know that China is the main culprit who orchestrated this virus crisis and caused heavy casualties and economic damage to Japan, they don't know if they would want to devour China alive.

Qi Yiming's plan is that China should not be too involved in the Ebola crisis in Japan, and the protagonists are still Shoaki Asahara and his Aum Shinrikyo, and China only needs to say what it should say and do what it should do, and it can watch Japan collapse and fall.