Rhine City.
After being struck by the epidemic, the East African government swiftly launched related measures. Beginning in January, East Africa had conducted strict inspections of European and American vessels, and after February, this was expanded to all countries around the world.
Because even the East African government did not currently know which countries had remained untouched by the epidemic.
"The number of patients reported nationwide currently stands at 1,372, with several western port cities accounting for over sixty percent of them. A large number of suspected cases have also appeared in the east."
"European countries are sounding the alarm one after another. Because of their frequent trade and exchanges with Europe, North American countries have also become the world's second-largest epidemic zone. The plague is spreading across the globe along maritime routes."
The figures provided by East Africa's Ministry of Health were truly shocking. Under East Africa's tight defenses, the number of infected people had already exceeded a thousand. In countries that had made no relevant preparations, that number had to be multiplied by at least ten. As for Europe and North America, there was no need to even mention them—the governments of those countries probably could not even keep count.
And those were merely the figures currently obtained by East Africa's Ministry of Health. Who knew how many infected people there truly were in East Africa? After all, the European Great Flu was easily confused with other influenzas, and once unreported cases were added in, the situation was clearly far from optimistic.
Ernst said, "We clearly cannot relax our guard against the epidemic. At the very least, we must prepare to endure the most difficult year."
Most plagues displayed tremendous power either at the beginning of their outbreak or during their middle stages. Ernst judged that this epidemic