The next day, Qin Ting went to work at the Ministry of Health as usual. As soon as she arrived at the door, she was informed that an emergency meeting was to be held.
Qin Ting hurried to the conference room on the fourth floor.
She pushed the door open and walked in. Several important directors of the Ministry of Health were there, and their faces were solemn. Qin Ting glanced at Liu Yihang, and the look he looked at her was scary.
"This is the report received three days ago." The deputy minister placed a piece of information on the ppt.
Qin Ting looked over and her expression suddenly darkened.
According to the data on the projector, the influenza epidemic rate this autumn is three times higher than in previous years, and unlike the majority of elderly people and children in the past, the proportion of young adults has increased significantly this time.
This is against the laws of nature.
The minister's advisor said: "We have verified this report and there are no problems with last year's data. In fact, the actual situation is even more serious than the above."
When there is a problem with this epidemic, the person more directly related to it is Director Ma.
Director Ma said: "We have taken countermeasures in advance, and compared with previous years, this year is more timely. Logically speaking, this situation should not occur."
The deputy minister said: "That's the problem."
Qin Ting looked at the data above and was a little shocked. According to the data above, taking the Beijing area as an example, the proportion of people who got the flu this autumn was as high as 33%. This proportion was only three days ago. Now
As it spreads, the data will surely keep climbing.
Such data values remind people of previous events. If they are not controlled as soon as possible, the consequences will be disastrous.
"There has been no death report yet," the director of vaccine research handed a research report to the minister's advisor, looking at the others and said: "There has been no death report yet, indicating that this virus is highly transmissible, but has a negative impact on human body functions.
The damage is limited. If the characteristics of the virus can be discovered in time and a vaccine can be produced, this epidemic should be controlled in time."
"This matter must be kept absolutely confidential," the deputy minister looked at everyone and said in a deep voice: "No outsiders can know, otherwise it will only cause panic."
After speaking, the deputy minister coughed a few times.
His coughs made the minister's advisor and several people around him frown.
"Deputy Department..."
"It's okay, let's arrange the work." After saying that, the deputy minister coughed a few more times and left the conference room first.
Watching the deputy minister leave, everyone looked at each other, and the worry and complexity were self-evident.
The main work of the prevention and control department where Qin Ting works is to find ways to reduce the spread of the virus and increase public health and safety. In order to respond to the epidemic more effectively, people in the prevention and control department basically go out to work, while the vaccine research team stays in the health department
The Ministry of Health began to intensify research on the virus situation, while the remaining people cooperated randomly.
At three o'clock in the afternoon, just when Qin Ting and others were about to return to the Ministry of Health to report the situation, a piece of bad news came.
"You're saying that both the deputy minister and the minister's adviser have flu symptoms?"
The flu here starts with a cough, then a fever, and then people start to feel drowsy and various values start to drop.
Deputy Director Li hung up the phone and said in a deep voice: "Everyone who participated in today's meeting will go back for inspection first."
After hearing the news, several directors of the Prevention and Control Department looked ugly. They went back for examination. Doesn't this mean that they are also likely to be infected? Today the deputy minister just coughed a few times in front of the minister's advisor.
, there is a problem with this ministerial advisor.
them……
Several people looked at each other, and no one spoke on the way back.
When we arrived at the vaccine department, when everyone was collecting serum for examination, the people they saw when they looked up were the people they met in the conference room today.
Someone coughed slightly, which immediately attracted other people's attention, and the staff next to him immediately isolated him.
Although the outside world has not yet felt much about this influenza, the group of people most directly involved are already facing strict isolation and inspection.
Qin Ting also took blood, and a group of people who were supposed to be working outside were isolated as the first batch of people, waiting for the results.
This wait lasted nearly four hours.
During this period, some people became anxious, but no matter how anxious they were, they could only endure it.
"Those whose names are read, enter this room." A man in a white protective suit said holding a list.
"What do you mean by dressing like this?!" A director at the scene was unhappy. He pointed at the researchers in the vaccine room and said: "You have protected yourself, so what should we do?! No matter what, we will
We must have the same treatment.”
"What's the fuss about?" Deputy Director Li said, and the man immediately fell silent.
The researcher continued: "If you hear the name, follow me into the room."
It’s a big concept. There are twenty people’s names, but only three people have not been read out, including the director who was just mentioned.
"They, we...what, what does this mean?!"
Two people wearing white protective suits came over and blocked the three of them: "Your results haven't come out yet. They have checked and there is no problem. You can go out with us first."
Is the result not out yet, or is there something wrong with the result?
Almost everyone in this department has a medical background from top to bottom, so no one can deceive anyone.
This rhetoric intensified the solemn atmosphere.
After Qin Ting and others entered the room, they came out of the room after being disinfected. After coming out, these people were immediately taken to the conference room. As soon as they entered the conference room, they could smell the smell of disinfectant. See
After the deputy minister and minister's advisor had problems, the conference room was immediately disinfected.
"Sorry, for the sake of caution, I just had to aggrieve everyone." The Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs, who had been outside, came back and took over the work of the Vice Minister in the morning. "I have the latest research findings here. After everyone has read it, I know in my heart that it is
Okay, don’t reveal a word to the outside world.”
What was projected on the projector were some maps. To an expert, those maps were obviously virus analysis maps.
Deputy Minister No. 2 said: "This one is the map of the virus in people who were infected with influenza earlier; this one is the latest analysis map. There are obvious differences between these two maps. That is to say, now we
We are facing two influenza viruses."
There are indeed two types.
Qin Ting looked at the map. The first type, which was the map analyzed earlier by Deputy Minister No. 2, showed that it was an ordinary influenza virus. In other words, the influenza virus was produced due to the change of seasons, and it was not much different from usual.
The second type, the influenza virus that I was infected with later, was obviously different.
It seems that there are traces of man-made artifacts.
Qin Ting was stunned, artificial, doesn't that mean that this flu virus may be a biochemical attack?!