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Chinese families 'start burning bodies of their loved ones in the streets' amid Covid explosion as corpses pile up in crematoriums and funeral homes
2023-01-04
  • Beijing's axing of its stringent virus curbs last month has caused cases to soar

  • Experts have warned millions could die from Covid in the coming months

  • Despite this, China still claims around 5,000 people have died from the virus

Funeral homes and hospitals say they have been overwhelmed as international health experts predict 2.1 million Covid deaths in the coming months.

Footage from China purportedly shows the makeshift cremations.

The scenes are reminiscent of India in 2021, when the Delta variant ran rampant through the country and killed tens of thousands of people.

As crematoriums were overwhelmed, citizens were forced to burn their dead on makeshift funeral pyres. At the time, Beijing's media mocked countries forced to incinerate their corpses in public spaces such as town squares.

London-based health researcher Airfinity believes more than 9,000 people are dying from the disease each day in China. This number could rise to 25,000 as people start to travel around the country for Lunar New Year celebrations.

Airfinity expects China's cases to reach their first peak on January 13 with 3.7 million daily infections, and warned deaths in the coming months could hit 2.1 million.

On Monday, China's president Xi Jinping finally admitted the mistakes of his draconian zero-Covid policy which failed to contain the virus and sparked the country's first widespread mass protests in decades.

With Covid disruptions slowing China's $17trillion economy to its lowest growth in nearly half a century, investors are now hoping policymakers will intervene to counter the slide.
Posted by:Skidmark

#4  â€˜Like a dystopia’: French expats on China’s ‘zero Covid’ and its shocking reversal
Posted by: KBK   2023-01-04 19:22  

#3  Headline could be from Jan 2020

Who's to say it wasn't and that information was suppressed?
Posted by: Mullah Richard   2023-01-04 09:53  

#2  Yeah. Headline could be from Jan 2020.
Posted by: Angstrom   2023-01-04 09:39  

#1  This is how the movie begins.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2023-01-04 09:06  

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