The New Challenge

By Ravi Ranjan Goswami

The person at the counter told her that she would have to be taken to an isolation ward. She was handed a hazmat suit and a mask. Her passport was taken to Immigration and then she was escorted to a room

• Language: English
• Publisher: Ravi Ranjan Goswami
• Release date: Jun 28, 2020
• ISBN: 9781393121473

Ravi Ranjan Goswami

Ravi Ranjan Goswami is a native of Jhansi, Uttar Pradesh, India.  He is a retired Indian Revenue Service officer,and former  Assistant Commissioner of Customs at Cochin. He writes poetry in Hindi and fiction in Hindi and English. He especially enjoys telling stories.

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Dec, 2019Wuhan China

34 years old Wen, an ophthalmologist at the Wuhan Central Hospital, arrived there as usual and exchanging greetings with the nurses and ward boys, went to his cabin. Before proceeding on a round of the ward head nurse placed a file before him. He felt uneasy by seeing the charts of the seven patients admitted to the hospital that day. To confirm his suspicion, he examined the patients.

He could not resist and sent a message via We Chat to a few of his doctor friends telling about his suspicion that a viral infection was spreading through the district. He also found all seven patients had eaten animal meat from the same seafood market in Hubei.

Inadvertently his message got leaked and became viral on the social sites. Chinese authorities were not pleased with this action of Dr. Wen. For certain unknown reasons China suppressed this news, but soon they had to accept that there was a Coronavirus outbreak in China. China informed the WHO about the novel Coronavirus outbreak. Then the