In Beijing
Four o'clock in the afternoon strikes just in Wuhan, and the winter light is already fading on the damp and cold banks of the Yang Tse Kiang, which silently tears the immense plain in the heart of China.
Under the pale neon lights of the central hospital in the capital of Hubei, the director of emergencies, Ai Fen,
"sweats with concern"
on December 30, 2019. She has just read the confidential diagnosis of a patient recently admitted
to the hospital.
'establishment.
The report, which
spelled out "SARS coronavirus",
describes the symptoms of
"atypical pneumonia"
, highly contagious.
Ai Fen immediately shows it to a seasoned colleague who was on the front lines in the fight against the SARS epidemic which killed 800 people across Asia in 2003.
"It's worrying"
he replies, pouting. .
The director of emergencies alerts her colleagues on the front line so that they redouble their precaution.
However, the next morning, at 10:20 a.m., they received an SMS from the committee.
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