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Yesterday marked the thirtieth day of the city lockdown in Shiyan, Hubei Province.
At 2 o'clock in the afternoon, the staff of Zhuyi Community in Huaguo Street and the building manager of Building 36, Unit 10, knocked on the door of Apartment 502. They were shocked by what they saw.
A 5 or 6-year-old boy opened the door. He lived with his 71-year-old grandfather, Tan Minhua, while his father, Tan Yi, lived in Liuzhou.
When the staff asked where the boy's grandfather was, the boy replied:
He has been dead for a few days.
The staff found the body of the old man in the bathroom, with blood stains around his mouth:
The body was covered with a blanket that the boy had placed over his grandfather.
Subsequently, volunteers called the police, and the police and medical personnel arrived at the scene. When asked why he didn't go out for help, the young child said that his grandfather didn't allow him to go outside:
There is a virus outside.
After his grandfather passed away, the child had been alone at home for several days. During these days, the boy survived by eating the biscuits at home. If it weren't for the community staff conducting an investigation on the epidemic, no one would have known how long the old man's body would have remained undiscovered. And no one would have known if the boy would have starved to death at home due to running out of biscuits.
Tan Minhua, the old man, was a retired worker from Dongfeng Foundry Factory, born in October 1949. Zhuyi Community is an enterprise community transferred by Dongfeng Foundry Factory to the local government, with a current population of 2,252 households.
A picture from the scene shows the boy wearing protective clothing. The protective clothing was too big for his small body, covering one of his eyes. It was as mismatched as his age and the pain he endured.
The hospital staff who admitted Tan Minhua told me that the old man suddenly fainted in the bathroom, and the grandson called him for two hours but didn't get a response from his grandfather.
Considering the old man's medical history, the hospital determined that it was a coronary heart disease attack, resulting in sudden cardiac death.
The staff member told me:
Many people have died during this period, and it's difficult for elderly people with underlying diseases to survive the winter.
The golden rescue time for sudden cardiac death is ten minutes. If the rescue is timely, the survival rate can reach 90%. The distance from Huaguo Hospital Emergency Station to Zhuyi New Village is 1.1 kilometers, and it only takes 4 minutes by car.
As of today, there have been a total of 671 confirmed cases and 3 deaths in Shiyan City.
On February 18th, Hubei Province began comprehensive screening for fever patients, and a week has passed since then. From the current situation, the workload of screening is still considerable.
Today marks the 33rd day of the lockdown in Wuhan. These are unforgettable 33 days.
Yesterday, Bruce Aylward, the foreign team leader of the World Health Organization's Wuhan inspection team, said that 25 years ago, he had been to Wuhan, which was much smaller at the time but bustling with traffic and full of vitality.
Two nights ago, when their inspection team arrived in Wuhan, the place was so different, and the city was filled with tall buildings and modern transportation hubs, but it was silent like ashes.
They passed by tall buildings where there were lights, but they stayed at home for several weeks. When they communicated with their Wuhan colleagues, they said, "This is our responsibility, the responsibility we bear."
Bruce Aylward said that the world owes a debt of gratitude to the people of Wuhan for their contributions. In this month, the Chinese people have experienced a lot, but the people of Wuhan have persevered.
As of noon today, Hubei Province has reported a total of 64,786 confirmed cases and 2,563 deaths.
I have written before. After the 2011 earthquake in Japan, Takeshi Kitano said:
A disaster is not the fact that 20,000 people died, but the fact that one person died, which happened 20,000 times.
It can be said that in these 33 days, the fact that one person died has occurred 2,563 times in Hubei. But there are some things that will not be recorded. For example, no one knows what kind of days the boy named Tan has experienced.
They were once someone's father, mother, husband, wife, son, or daughter. They were all once vibrant individuals.
Five or six years ago, I watched a Hong Kong movie. It was about a dozen people taking an overnight minibus to Tai Po.
After passing through the Lion Rock Tunnel, the remaining 7 billion people on Earth suddenly disappeared in an instant.
They were in a panic and wanted to know why. Later, they found out that the people on that bus had actually died in a car accident while passing through the tunnel. They were forever trapped on that minibus.
In "The Count of Monte Cristo," it is written that all human wisdom is contained in four words: wait and hope.
In these 33 days, many people have been yearning for the ordinary days before the epidemic. They say that after the epidemic is over, they want to do this and that. However, I saw a netizen say:
We are just trapped at home, but those who have passed away are forever trapped in the winter of 2020.
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