Chapter 3: Cases Are Rising

Fortunately, the train station wasn’t the starting place of an outbreak. But the patient in the train station, Patient No. 7, already started dozing off.

After 1 month of fighting the virus, Patient No. 1 suffered her last flatline, and was declared dead seconds after. “Now what,” one of the doctors asked.

Patient No. 1, Alice White, was from Finburg. Her husband died last year, and her two children are in London with their own families.

The urn can’t be transported that easy, as she had no relatives back in Finburg. But her children instructed us to bury her beside her husband in the Finburg Public Cemetery. But it still won’t be easy.

Riding in an ambulance, Doc and a chaperone transported Patient No. 1’s urn back to Finburg. After a blessing from the bishop of Wellsworth, the ambulance slowly made its way to Finburg; Finburg’s border was a mess, as people tried to get back home before their lockdown started.

5 hours later, the ambulance finally reached the Finburg Public Cemetery, where it was simply buried beside Patient No. 1’s husband.

When Doc finally went home after a tiring travel to bury Patient No. 1, he saw that the cases are rising. “How did this happened,” Doc asked.

It was the event Doc feared the most. A party in the riverside, which violated health protocols, became the center of an outbreak. Turns out, the daughter of Patient No. 7 joined the party and started showing symptoms three days later.

There were some 50 people in the riverside; almost all of them are infected with the virus. A second patient also died and was buried at the Wellsworth Cathedral.

It’s dreadful to see some 50 people, lying in beds, striving to live, there isn’t a treatment that is being tested yet. They also lie there lonely and unconscious, and die without seeing their family for the last time.

Just like those infected with COVID-19 fifteen years ago. There was one person infected with that virus in Wellsworth, and she sadly died. She worked in London, and her family hadn’t see her alive for one last time.

One day, Doc proposed to treat the patients by giving them antihistamine before they doze off. The first patient administered with antihistamine was Patient No. 56, who was the mother of another patient. It was observed that the patient stayed awake for a longer time than the other patients, but Patient No. 56 soon dozed off.

Also, the shipment from Denburg has arrived! The workers at the harbor were advised before to always wear masks and practice distancing. They were also advised to disinfect every package from the ship.

However, just right after the unloading finished, one of the workers showed symptoms of the virus. Without hesitation, he admitted himself to the hospital, thinking of his grim end.

The unloading of the ship signaled the second wave of the distribution of relief goods.