The spring of 2003 is a memory that the Chinese people cannot erase. SARS was menacing, and for a time, people were panicked and masks were all over the city. On April 20, 2003, a pharmacy in Beijing that had closed its doors at night also typed on an electronic screen the words "mask arrival" recommended for the public to use preventive medicines to remind the public to take measures to prevent and control SARS.
Guangdong is the area where SARS first broke out. At that time, it was rumored that white vinegar and banlan root could prevent and control the epidemic, causing people to rush to buy and sell out. The picture shows a group of citizens buying white vinegar at the entrance of the factory of Xiamen Taohua Datong Condiment Company on February 11, 2003. A bottle of vinegar here sells for 10 yuan, and convenience stores in various neighborhoods are said to have sold for 30 to 250 yuan.
When the SARS epidemic broke out in Beijing, the public began to become panicked. On April 9, 2003, people buy Traditional Chinese medicine at a Tongrentang pharmacy in Beijing, which is said to prevent SARS. After the media reported that a Chinese medicine could prevent SARS, the pharmacy sold out 30,000 pairs in one day.
At the same time, in order to reduce the risk of infection when going out, daily necessities have also begun to be snapped up in large quantities. Pictured here on May 6, 2003, the shelves of a supermarket in Beijing are empty
With the spread of the epidemic, many places that were once prosperous and prosperous have become deserted and even forced to close down. A security guard in Beijing looks out through an iron fence on a shopping street in Guanzhang on May 29, 2003.
At that time, the civet was suspected to be the culprit of the SARS virus and once faced the fate of being killed. On June 1, 2003, in Guangzhou, a health worker carries a cage full of beavers at an animal market
Under the panic mentality, many areas have adopted lockdown and isolation measures to prevent infection. The picture shows the village entrance of Hangou Village, Luoling Township, Luoning County, Henan Province, on May 23, 2003, and the duty officers watched the people walking towards the village entrance vigilantly.
On May 8, 2003, in Beijing, a neighborhood committee worker (left) let two residents into the apartment building. In order to prevent and control SARS, the building has banned outsiders from entering.
On May 19, 2003, in order to check on a taxi and driver who had pulled and delivered a feverish man, the Traffic Bureau of Lintong District of Xi'an City urgently inspected all 363 sapphire blue taxis in the district, and offered a reward of 3,000 yuan to solicit relevant clues that had pulled the feverish man.
Since Beijing at that time was the hardest hit area of the SARS epidemic, many people chose to leave Beijing to take refuge. The picture shows a long queue buying train tickets at Beijing West Railway Station on April 26, 2003.
On April 27, 2003, passengers returning home on the Beijing-Hankou train were subjected to strict inspections when leaving Hankou Station.
SARS ran rampant, a large number of people reduced travel, and many train cars have become "chartered cars" for some passengers. The picture shows a lonely passenger looking out the window on a hard sleeper train into Beijing on June 2, 2003.
For all high school seniors, in 2003, they not only faced a month in advance of the first year of the college entrance examination, but also encountered the SARS epidemic, you can imagine what kind of pressure they are under. The picture shows the entrance of a middle school in Changping District, Beijing, where the class teacher uses an infrared thermometer to measure the body temperature of each student
The major universities throughout Beijing are the key areas for prevention and control. The Beijing Municipal Education Commission issued a notice that schools found to have SARS could choose to suspend classes. The picture shows that on April 23, 2003, in order to prevent SARS from entering the school, a notice was posted at the west gate of Tsinghua University in Beijing, and there were security guards standing guard to enter and exit the school gate to verify and prohibit outsiders from entering the school.
On May 3, 2003, at Northern Jiaotong University (now known as Beijing Jiaotong University), quarantined students lined up to carry bricks. On April 24 of that year, several cases of SARS were detected at Northern Jiaotong University, after which nearly 400 students and school staff were quarantined.
At that time, Amoy Garden Tower E in Hong Kong was urgently closed and quarantined by the government due to the serious epidemic. Pictured here on 31 March 2003, a small resident in Block E looks out of a window.
During special periods, events with large crowds, such as concerts, were also cancelled. On April 1, 2003, fans had to refund their tickets due to the cancellation of the Rolling Stones' concert in Shanghai.
A man walks past a billboard fighting SARS in Beijing on May 5, 2003.
The epidemic is raging, and major hospitals have naturally become the main battlefield of the fight. In May 2003, in Caochang East Lane, Dongcheng District, Beijing, a "heavily armed" medical worker is waiting to receive a suspected SARS patient
On April 29, 2003, a man suspected of being infected with SARS fainted on the street in Beijing, and medical staff rushed to the rescue.
In May 2003, medical staff in Tianjin to prevent ANDS transferred a patient to a hospital, and thick protective clothing left them breathless.
On May 10, 2003, a SARS patient who had just been sent to Beijing Coal Hospital was psychologically unwilling to admit that he was ill and did not cooperate with the hospital's treatment, and the medical staff was doing ideological work for him in his ward.
On April 30, 2003, at Beijing Ditan Hospital, several doctors nervously performed invasive tracheal surgery on a severely ill SARS patient despite the risk of infection in close proximity, trying to help patients restore respiratory function.
On May 11, 2003, a nurse who had just emerged from the ward of Beijing Ditan Hospital sat in the corridor for a short rest. For a month and a half, the doctors and nurses who stuck to their posts could not be reunited with their families.
At 22:31 on May 12, 2003, Ding Xiulan lay quietly on a bed in Beijing Ditan Hospital, receiving treatment from the blood purification system. After 5 and a half hours, the miracle that people had hoped for did not appear, and the deputy director of the emergency department of the People's Hospital who had rescued many SARS patients was killed by the SARS disease.
On April 30, a doctor stood in front of his body at Beijing Ditan Hospital, where a seriously ill patient died of ineffective rescue.
The difficulties are numerous, and the battle against SARS must continue. The picture shows the first ward and the second ward of Beijing Ditan Hospital on May 11, 2003, downstairs and upstairs, respectively. The hospital treated SARS patients in a total of 9 wards
On May 14, 2003, firefighters in protective suits at Taipei Peace Hospital, where the SARS outbreak was severe, sprayed disinfectant at high altitudes.
On April 27, 2003, an isolated nurse at Taipei Heping Hospital communicated with her loved ones via a webcam.
Children in the SARS Children's Ward, Beijing Ditan Hospital, May 15, 2003.
Chen Wei of the Institute of Microbiology and Epidemiology of the Academy of Military Medical Sciences has not returned home for more than a month, and her 4-year-old son can only meet and greet his mother on TV reports.
A thousand paper cranes hanging outside the China-Japan Friendship Hospital, Beijing, May 12, 2003
Due to the impact of the SARS epidemic, classes in Hong Kong have been suspended since 28 March 2003. After the epidemic subsided, primary and secondary schools in Hong Kong resumed full operation on 19 May 2003. At the Shenzhen Luohu Customs site, which connects Shenzhen and Hong Kong, every day you can see the dancing figures and happy laughter of students who go to and from Shenzhen and Hong Kong.
On May 8, 2003, medical staff from Beijing Sixth Hospital bid farewell to a recovered SARS patient
How many memories of the SARS epidemic can not be erased by the Chinese people!