At night, the rush to buy gradually subsided. The residents who bought enough food and daily necessities returned home one after another, and the city basically returned to peace. On this day, several looting and inciting trouble occurred in the city, but they were quickly calmed down by the police who were closely inspecting, and more than 10 criminals were arrested. In addition, some people who did not see the notice or were lucky enough to leave the city, but were stopped by the troops guarding various roads, and no one dared to attack the army.

Overall, the situation was basically fine on the first day of the city lockdown, and no major incidents occurred, so it was considered a good start. After all, the difficulty of the city lockdown was mainly at the beginning. As long as nothing happened at the beginning, there would be basically no major events later. On the one hand, this is due to sufficient preparation in advance, and on the other hand, it is also the prestige accumulated by the East China government in recent years.

After the East China Government ruled Harbin, it was far ahead of the Qing court in terms of efficiency, style, fairness, etc., so the people's conviction with the East China Government was also very high, and the outbreak of the plague has indeed caused quite a lot of panic. The government proposed to lock down the city in the name of controlling the epidemic. Although the people had some complaints, they basically accepted it calmly.

Of course, it is not a time to be at ease. Bi Jing has only banned the roads entering and leaving Harbin. Only tonight will the streets and communities in the city be banned. This is the real test. However, Zhong Xiaohui was also a little confident. First, the roads entering and leaving Harbin were banned without any major incidents; second, when the supply of daily necessities today was extremely high, basically the people have prepared some daily necessities, which are food, drink and useful, and they will not cause any trouble when closed. In addition, some areas of Harbin have been banned, and the people are somewhat accustomed to banning.

But Zhong Xiaohui still did not dare to be careless. On the one hand, he urged the barrier facilities in each block to be installed as soon as possible; on the other hand, he gathered all the daily necessities that were not sold out today, packaged and packaged, and prepared to be distributed to each household. Of course, since the residents in the city have basically prepared some daily necessities, they don’t have to be distributed immediately. However, in every closed society, a part must be prepared to prevent these residents who need banquets.

After all this was arranged, it was over 7 o'clock in the evening, but Zhong Xiaohui still couldn't rest because he had to wait for Zhou Weiying to come back from the epidemic prevention camp and negotiate the work of going to the closed area tomorrow for a comprehensive investigation.

However, it was not until 8 o'clock that Zhou Weiying came back, and Zhong Xiaohui said: "Director Zhou, have you been busy in the epidemic prevention camp until now!"

Zhou Weiying shook her head and said, "That's right, it's just that Director Liu sent a telegram to talk about the situation in Manzhouli, so I went to the provincial government first to negotiate with Governor Wang about the affairs in Manzhouli."

Zhong Xiaohui said: "How is the situation in Manzhouli? Should we also lock down the city?" Although the epidemic in Manzhouli has nothing to do with Zhong Xiaohui, it also has the intention of uniting hatred for the enemy. Moreover, if the epidemic in Manzhouli is not controlled, it will be useless even if Harbin can fight the epidemic.

Zhou Weiying nodded and said, "Yes, although there are much fewer plague patients in Manzhouli than Harbin, the size and population of Manzhouli are much smaller than Harbin. Therefore, the severity of the epidemic in Manzhouli is not worse than that of Harbin. Therefore, the city lockdown must be carried out to control the epidemic. Moreover, the conditions and material reserves in Manzhouli are much worse than those in Harbin. I am afraid that some of the materials need to be supported from Harbin to go over."

Zhong Xiaohui said: "This is no problem. I will negotiate with the provincial government tomorrow. As long as we can do our best, we will be responsible for it."

Zhou Weiying said: "And Director Liu and his team have also investigated the source of the epidemic these days. People who were infected with the epidemic have all been to Russia or had history of contact with Russians. In addition, 12 Russian plague patients were found in Manlizhou, all of whom have just crossed the border from Russia, and they said that there was also a plague in Chita area. However, it is not yet certain whether they were infected with the virus in Russia or were infected after entering the country."

Although the relationship between the East China Government and Russia is not good now, the trade between the two sides in the Far East is very frequent. After all, Russia's Far East and Europe are separated by the vast Siberian region. Even if the Siberian Railway is connected now, the exchanges between Russia's Far East and Europe are still limited. On the contrary, it has a large amount of economic complementarity with the Northeast of the East China Government, and the East China Government is also optimistic. Therefore, the trade volume of the two sides is increasing significantly every year. Of course, this also caused a large amount of private smuggling trade. Manzhouli is the node of the Central and Eastern Railway connecting the Siberian Railway, and naturally becomes an important city for trade between the two sides. More than 40% of the Sino-Russian border trade are completed in Manzhouli.

Zhong Xiaohui said: "It was indeed from Russia, so what should I do!" In the old time and space, the outbreak of plague in Northeast China was introduced from Russia. However, in this era, the outbreak of plague was early and the situation was somewhat different. Therefore, the East China Government did not dare to make a judgment easily. It must be investigated before confirmation, which also shows the rigorous scientific attitude of the East China Government.

Zhou Weiying said: "The result of my consultation with Governor Wang is that Manzhouli is not just a lockdown now. I am afraid that the Sino-Russian border must be closed and the exchanges and communication between China and Russia must be completely cut off, so that the epidemic can be finally truly controlled. Therefore, we will generate electricity to Qingdao tomorrow and request the Executive Yuan to order the Sino-Russian border to close it."

Zhong Xiaohui was also surprised. Closing the Sino-Russian border means completely severing trade exchanges between China and Russia. This is also a major blow to the economy of Heilongjiang and Jilin provinces, because trade between China and Russia is an important economic part of Heilongjiang and Jilin provinces. However, since it is confirmed that the epidemic was transmitted from Russia, in order to control the epidemic, it is naturally necessary to temporarily close the Sino-Russian border and cut off civil smuggling from both sides. Therefore, Zhou Weiying had to negotiate with Wang Sheng.

Although the Qingdao Executive Yuan has authorized the Epidemic Prevention and Control Management Committee and the Heilongjiang Provincial Government to decide to lock down the city on its own based on the epidemic prevention and control situation, if the Sino-Russian border is closed, it is necessary to ask the Qingdao Executive Yuan for instructions.

Zhou Weiying continued: "Okay, let's not talk about the affairs in Manzhouli anymore, let's take care of the affairs in Harbin first."

Zhong Xiaohui immediately said: "How is the situation in the epidemic prevention camp today!"

Zhou Weiying said: "Fortunately, today I have arranged to rush to work overnight to expand the camp, because after a comprehensive investigation starts tomorrow, the number of patients will increase significantly. Fortunately, tomorrow."

Zhong Xiaohui also nodded and said, "I just received a telegram that the first batch of supplies and the new batch of medical staff have passed through Shenyang and will arrive in Harbin tomorrow. At that time, our personnel and materials situation should be more relaxed."

Zhou Weiying said: "It's very good. The effect of testing antibiotics and serum in the past few days is very good. Several patients with mild symptoms can be cured in recent days. More than one-third of the severe patients can be converted to mild symptoms. However, the antibiotics and serum we bring are almost used. Tomorrow's supplies include antibiotics and 5,000 doses of serum each. As soon as it arrives, it can be used on a large scale for patients, so that many people's lives can be saved. According to our estimates, if antibiotics and serum are absolutely sufficient, the mortality rate of plague patients can be controlled at about 30%.

Zhong Xiaohui said: "That's great. The more people heal, the more beneficial it will be to us to boost the confidence of the people and the more it will be to the government."

In the absence of antibiotics and serum, the mortality rate of plague patients is about 60%, of which the mortality rate of mild patients is about 50%, while the mortality rate of severe patients is as high as 80%. In the era of the veterans, medical technology was developed and the mortality rate of plague patients can be controlled below 10%. Therefore, if the East China government can use antibiotics and serum to significantly increase the cure rate of plague patients and control the mortality rate of plague patients at about 30%, of course, it can greatly enhance the people's confidence in the government, and thus can more obey the government's orders.

Zhou Weiying sighed and said, "It's a pity that our antibiotic and serum production capacity has not been improved. The equipment and instruments of Bijing's era are too backward and may still be available now, but it may be difficult to sustain in the later stage. I just hope that the gap will not be too big."

She is the director of Qingdao People's Army General Hospital. Of course, she is aware of the production capacity of antibiotics and serum. Although the veterans advanced the appearance of antibiotics and serum by 20-30 years, due to the backward overall process of this era and the successful research on production and refining technology, it has been less than one year since antibiotics were successfully developed, which led to antibiotics. The serum cannot be mass-produced on a large scale in a short period of time. The antibiotics used now are mainly stocks accumulated in the early stage. Once the inventory is almost used, the production capacity in the later stage will definitely not be able to keep up. Therefore, today Zhou Weiying negotiated with other veteran doctors in the epidemic prevention camp and finally decided that she could only give up some severe patients, but with mild patients as the main treatment target. After all, the probability of curing patients with mild patients is greater, but for doctors, this is of course a difficult decision. And there is no need to tell Zhong Xiaohui.
Chapter completed!