"Director Zhou, the number of confirmed cases in Harbin has dropped for 7 consecutive days, and the number of confirmed cases in the past two days has been less than 200. It can be confirmed that the epidemic in Harbin has passed the turning point."

"Yes, the turning point has already appeared. If it weren't for the 'charlatan incident', the turning point could have been calculated at least 10 days ago. Since the number of confirmed cases has dropped for 7 consecutive days, there is probably no rebound."

"It should be said that the 'charlatan incident' is just an accident. Moreover, judging from the general trend of epidemic prevention and control in Heilongjiang Province and Jilin Province, the number of confirmed cases is showing a significant decline. The total number of confirmed cases for three consecutive days is less than 500. It should be officially announced that the epidemic has passed the turning point and is developing in a positive direction, so that the pressure on Qingdao will be much less."

Zhou Weiying looked at the epidemic trend chart. Whether it is a city that has been banned or the overall trend, the curve indicating that the number of people with symptoms is indeed showing a significant downward trend, and the curve of the downward trend is not smooth and quite steep, which can be said to be a very rapid decline.

In fact, the number of confirmed cases in Harbin has decreased, which has appeared more than 10 days ago. It has dropped for 4 consecutive days, and the decline has also been quite fast. The number of confirmed cases has dropped from thousands to hundreds of digits. At that time, medical staff were very happy and believed that the turning point of the epidemic in Harbin has reached, because Harbin is the most severe city with epidemic data, and all epidemic data accounts for more than half. Therefore, the turning point of the epidemic in Harbin means that the turning point of the entire epidemic has reached.

But no one expected that on the 5th day, the number of confirmed cases began to rise again, and it continued to rise for 3 consecutive days. Fortunately, the increase was not large, and the number of confirmed cases did not exceed 1,000. However, it still made medical staff nervous. After the number of confirmed cases decreased, a rebound of 1 or 2 days was normal, but it would be a problem if there was a rise of 3 consecutive days.

So the medical staff immediately launched an investigation and found that the increase in the past three days was related to a banned area in the junction of Harbin's suburban urban areas. Harbin is an emerging city with no city walls, so there is no obvious dividing between the urban area and the suburbs. When Harbin was locked down, some village areas that were administratively suburban were also banned. This banned area is composed of three adjacent villages, with a total of more than 800 households. It is the largest banned area. Although entry and exit are strictly prohibited, these three villages can still be circulated between each other. In the past three days, the number of people with real symptoms in this banned area has increased rapidly, reaching 27, 65, and 102 respectively, and most of them are severely ill patients. Three days ago, the number of people with real symptoms in this banned area was only 6. Therefore, there is obvious problem with this banned area.

The epidemic prevention committee immediately sent people to the restricted area for investigation. Only after this investigation did I find that there was a professional witch in this restricted area. In order to make money, she had exorcised evil spirits for some suspected patients. Because the actions were relatively secret, they were also prohibited from going to medical staff to check for the symptoms. At the same time, they were negligent in management. Therefore, the managers of the restricted area and the village committee managers of the three villages did not find out. As a result, they reported only after the condition was serious, but they had caused serious infection sources and formed a super infection incident.

In fact, during the epidemic, there were many cases of charlatans and folk doctors treating people. It has happened more than 10 times. Although the government repeatedly banned charlatans and folk doctors from treating the epidemic, once it occurred, charlatans and folk doctors were sentenced to more than 10 years of sentence. However, it cannot be denied that there is still a large market for charlatans and folk doctors. Many people trust them better than regular medical staff. Moreover, these people are generally free from the law-breaking side and are not very brave, so they are still banned repeatedly. Two cases have been discovered in Harbin alone. Of course, they have been severely punished by the government, one sentenced to 12 years and the other sentenced to 13 years, but there are still people who dare to test the law with their own hands.

However, the first two times occurred during the investigation just after the city was closed, so the impact on the epidemic trend was not great. However, this time it happened when the number of confirmed cases decreased significantly, causing the epidemic to rebound.

Originally, after the city was closed in Harbin, medical staff investigated various banned areas. Naturally, many confirmed cases and suspected banned cases were found, and the number of epidemics increased sharply, which also caused a lot of slander. Some people believed that the more people were locked, the more they were, it was better not to lock down the city. Some people made up theories seriously, believing that the ban on personnel will lead to the speed of spreading the epidemic, so the lockdown was completely wrong, etc. In addition, some people deliberately set the pace in it, so various rumors were rampant.

Although we know that the surge in the number of epidemics is actually a normal phenomenon, and after the investigation is over, the increase will naturally drop, both the epidemic prevention and control committee in Harbin and the Qingdao Executive Yuan have been under great pressure. Therefore, at the Executive Meeting, some people proposed to do some tricks on the published numbers to appease public opinion. However, this suggestion was rejected by the Epidemic Prevention and Control Committee and the Qingdao Executive Yuan, both believed that it was necessary to ensure the authenticity of the published numbers and persist until the turning point came. Otherwise, it would be difficult to justify itself, and we could only use new lies to make up for the old lies.

Sure enough, three days after the investigation, the increase in the number of confirmed cases began to decline, and on the 7th day, the growth in the number of confirmed cases began to decline, and it dropped for 4 consecutive days, from a thousand digits to a hundred digits. Just when everyone thought the turning point of the epidemic had arrived, this incident occurred.

Of course, the reason for the increase was found. The epidemic prevention and control committee and the Harbin government immediately launched an action. First, they naturally arrested people for trial, and finally sentenced him to 18 years. At the same time, the managers of the banned area and the village committee managers of three villages were demoted and removed from their posts. Then the banned area was re-inspected, and more than 100 patients with confirmed symptoms, more than 200 suspected quarantine symptoms were found, and more than 800 people were isolated.

However, although this incident caused the epidemic rebound in Harbin, from the general trend of the epidemic, the overall trend was still on the decline, and the government's actions were also very extreme, preventing the expansion of the epidemic rebound. Therefore, two days after the investigation, the epidemic trend in Harbin began to decline again, and this decline was 7 days, and the number of confirmed patients was reduced to less than 200, from a hundred digits to a ten digit, which was just around the corner.

At the same time, not only Harbin, but other banned cities, the overall trend of the epidemic is showing a significant downward trend, so it does show that the turning point of this epidemic has passed.

So Zhou Weiying nodded and said, "Okay, I can report to the Executive Yuan that the turning point of the epidemic has passed and is developing in a positive direction."

After receiving the report from the Epidemic Prevention and Control Committee, the Executive Yuan immediately announced to the public that the turning point of the epidemic has passed and the epidemic has been controlled. Moreover, the epidemic figures announced in the past few days have also shown a significant downward trend. Therefore, public opinion has gradually calmed down. Although there are still people working hard to lead the pace and attempting to remain hot, it is ultimately the general trend and it is difficult to make any big waves.

Only then did Zhou Weiying and other medical staff breathe a sigh of relief and finally could relax a little. To be honest, it had been two months since they arrived in Harbin. In the past two months, almost all medical staff were working under a high tension. Although a large number of medical staff were transferred from various places, the intensity of work had dropped significantly, the psychological pressure did not reduce at all.

Although the protective measures of medical staff are very strict, there are still some misunderstandings. Therefore, by this time, more than 30 medical staff were infected with epidemics at work. Although there were effective drugs such as antibiotics and serum, they did not cure all diseases. Five medical staff died. More than 20 medical staff had mistakenly thought they were infected with epidemics and caused a false alarm. Many people even had insomnia, fever, mental anxiety, and mild anxiety.

Although the number of deaths infectious diseases is not large, it still puts huge mental pressure on medical staff. After all, this is indeed a huge risk of work. Although veteran medical staff tried their best to comfort themselves, their role was limited. Of course, more than 20 veteran medical staff were in charge of the epidemic area, which did play a considerable leading role.

Now that the turning point of the epidemic has passed and has been controlled, the pressure on medical staff has naturally been greatly reduced, and many people can finally have a stable sleep.

In fact, veteran medical staff are equally tired, and it is impossible to say that they are not nervous. However, on the one hand, they are all veterans and always have the appearance of veterans; on the other hand, in the old time and space, they have been baptized by the epidemic and have enough experience in dealing with it, so they are indeed much better than ordinary local naturalized medical staff.

In the following days, good news about epidemic prevention came one after another. First of all, the number of patients with confirmed symptoms finally dropped to double digits, and all new patients with confirmed symptoms were confirmed by suspected patients with accurate symptoms who had been isolated and observed. There were no new patients with correct symptoms outside the epidemic prevention camp. Secondly, due to antibiotics and serum, during this period, medical staff have gradually accumulated a lot of experience in treating plague, including antibiotics and serum use methods to achieve the best treatment effect. Therefore, the number of patients with correct symptoms has increased significantly, and patients with correct symptoms have reached three digits every day. This means that on the epidemic trend chart, the curve of the number of patients with correct symptoms and the curve of the number of patients with correct symptoms has crossed, which is also another important node in epidemic prevention and control. It is just around the corner to fight the epidemic.
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