"Due to the recent epidemic of new Legionella pneumonia in our city, martial law will be implemented across the city at 19:00 pm on August 3. Please return home as soon as possible, do not panic, and wait patiently for the evacuation arrangements..."

On the TV screen, the male host's expression was very serious, his voice was solemn and generous, and he was full of confidence in overcoming difficulties.

Shanhai City, no matter which TV channel is opened, the signal is this breaking news report.

The Internet has been regulated, but mobile phones across the city are receiving such text messages, and a new one will be available every once in a while.

The notice starts at 2:00 pm and martial law will be carried out until 7:00 pm. Time is very fast, which makes people both shocked and scared.

Some people immediately drove away from Shanhai City. Whether they were coming from other places to leave or local people who were taking their families, they found that all the entrances and exits were already under control and the entire city was blocked.

Some people also want to go to supermarkets to rush to shop for supplies, but find that all supermarkets and large shopping malls are blocked and cannot enter.

In the news report, the host actually made it very clear.

Legionella is airborne, produced in the natural environment, and breeds in artificial water supply systems such as air conditioning and refrigeration devices, hot and cold water systems. These systems discharge contaminated aerosols and will be infected after being inhaled into the human body, resulting in symptoms such as fever, sweating, difficulty breathing, coughing, etc.

Therefore, places like supermarkets and gyms are the most severely transmitted places.

All air conditioners in the city should not be turned on immediately, and showers, humidifiers, etc. must be deactivated. Furthermore, all artificial water supply systems must be deactivated. Water will be cut off from the city starting at midnight on the 4th. Please store water well, but it is best not to drink it. If you want to drink it, you must leave it for ten hours. Do not approach the faucet if you have water. Please stick to evacuation and do not panic.

Prevention and control personnel will first take away and quarantine the infected and suspected infected people in the city one by one, and then evacuate other people.

"Please stay at home patiently." The host emphasized repeatedly, "Don't panic."

This press release was obviously considered repeatedly, hoping that the public would understand that the situation was serious but not panic. It did not even say that "outbreak" but "an outbreak" the epidemic.

However, those who study medicine can hear more strangeness. In the past, Legionella was not so contagious. What does the "new Legionella" mean?

Not everyone knows Legionella, but every citizen can feel the severity of these emergency measures.

Li Mingqiu has been graduating from university for six years, and is nearly thirty years old. He is a programmer in an IT company.

As soon as the city notice was released in the afternoon, the company was in panic and everyone wanted to leave immediately, but the leader said that the guidance documents asked them to stay in the company as much as possible and wait for evacuation, and those who wanted to return home as soon as possible were those walking on the street.

"If you have children to take care of, you can leave first. Others think about it themselves. The traffic outside is very messy and there are many people, so it is more likely to be infected when you go out and run around."

This is the truth. Looking out from the windows on the middle floor of this office building, pedestrians were in a hurry on the street, and taxis were not stopped at all, and they were on the verge of paralysis of traffic.

Because Li Mingqiu is not a local and has not gotten married and has children, he rented an apartment with others. It was nothing good to go back, so he chose to stay in the company.

Half of the colleagues stayed behind, not all because of the family, and some people wanted to rush to buy supplies: "I don't know how long it will take to wait for evacuation. The bacteria can pollute the water, and the mineral water will be snatched away later." Some people think that nothing is serious: "It's just a trick."

The central air conditioner was turned off immediately. In the hot summer of August, the office was so hot that the windows had to be closed according to instructions.

"This epidemic may be even more serious than SARS..."

"Yes, the country must know that it's rushed to do it, but it still did it."

The office was stuffy and there were more than a dozen people left behind to stay in their seats. After the initial excited discussion, they were already confused and said nothing.

At this time, Wei Xiaoru, who was chatting with a doctor classmate, put down her cell phone and said to the nervous people: "My classmate said there are many kinds of Legionella bacteria. This time it should be a new type of bacteria, which is different from the previous ones. Preventing Legionella bacteria should open windows to keep ventilation and not provide them with an ideal growth environment."

"Then we still close the window?" Zhang Dawei said in surprise. This was also the doubt of Li Mingqiu and others.

Wei Xiaoru recalled: "The main transmission carrier of Legionella is the aerosol mentioned in the news, but it can usually only spread to a space with a radius of 200 meters with the wind, and survive in tap water for more than an hour. Now I have to close the window and stop water. My classmate said that there are only three possibilities."

"First, this new type of Legionella has more diverse carriers, a larger spread range, and lives in the water for a longer time; second, the disease control side believes that Shanhai City has been polluted everywhere.... Also, the first two may be true."

Everyone looked at each other. Although they didn't understand medicine very much, they all understood how serious it was.

It spreads with the wind? It spreads with tap water? People always have to breathe and drink water.

"The whole city is polluted?" Zhang Dawei looked anxious and angry, "What's wrong? Did he hide the news? He will only evacuate it if he makes it like this?"

"My classmate said..." Wei Xiaoru was also confused, "This epidemic may have developed very quickly, and even the country was caught off guard."

Everyone was worried and anxious, but they could only wait. It was seven o'clock in the evening, and an alarm sounded over the city and martial law began.

They looked out from the office window and the streets had already become quiet. Only the disease control vehicles that had appeared since the afternoon. Martial law vehicles drove by on the road from time to time. A team of disease control personnel wearing white protective clothing walked by, and grabbed some people who were still wandering outside onto the transport vehicle.

But the news has long said that contact with disease control personnel has a greater risk of infection, so don’t deliberately go out and be arrested.

Moreover, being taken away was not from Shanhai City, but was taken for examination. Once suspected infection was suspected, it would be quarantined and treated.

After the alarm sounded, a radio sounded over the city: "Please return home as soon as possible..."

The news also said that if you find suspected symptoms of constant coughing, etc. in the surrounding people, please stay away from the suspected patients immediately and call the help hotline. If you have symptoms, please call the hotline immediately to get treatment as soon as possible.

Why should patients be removed first and others be removed?

Li Mingqiu thought about this problem for an afternoon, and the more he thought about it, the more he felt that apart from the shortage of manpower, the entire Shanhai City should be polluted...

This disease has an incubation period. If anyone carries the bacteria and doesn't have it, one patient can expand the contamination range and infect tens of thousands of others.

Therefore, we cannot evacuate randomly. We need to spend time to let the patients reveal themselves first, so as to determine where the Shanhai City is still clean.

Perhaps only healthy people in clean areas will be truly evacuated in the end...

Everyone was silent. Suddenly, Lin Mingda, a colleague who was sitting on his office chair, who was not talking much, coughed suddenly: "Cough, cough..."

Suddenly, they all turned their heads and saw that Lin Mingda's expression had become a little ugly since when.

It was over, Li Mingqiu's heart was tight and his whole body seemed to collapse. Wei Xiaoru next to him also turned pale.

"Ah!" Zhang Dawei took a few steps back and said in panic: "Call for someone, call..."
Chapter completed!