Chapter SevenHours after her lighthearted conversation with Sarah, Jen found herself huddled in the cellar of the Royal Melbourne Hospital, cursing the crowds that had brought the virus to the city’s door. They had worked non-stop, moving the stable patients into the more secure concrete service rooms below the hospital, before shutting the entrances down completely. The intensive care patients had been left with a skeleton staff, with most of the generator power diverted to the ward after a collision between tram and traffic had brought down the power lines. They had been fortunate in having the advanced warning from the authorities. As brief as it was, it was enough to enable them to make an identification chart to check against the possible infected, and they had made the decision to tu
