January 18th, the 24th of the twelfth lunar month, the Southern Chinese New Year.
On this day, the relevant parties organized a high-level medical and prevention and control expert group to rush to the epidemic site to inspect the epidemic prevention and control work.
An old man who had made a great contribution to the epidemic in 2003, at the age of 80, once again took on a heavy responsibility. He took a train from Yangcheng to the city where the epidemic occurred.
After this news was released, it was also a hot topic on the Internet.
The optimistic ones believed that since this old man had come out, it meant that the country had taken this epidemic seriously and was determined to eliminate it.
The pessimistic ones believed that the situation was already very serious since they had invited this 80-year-old man out.
It was also on this day that the second version of the treatment plan was released.