China's hospitals packed in COVID wave -- and so are its crematoria

China is reportedly registering a massive surge in coronavirus or Covid-19 cases in the wake of the Chinese government’s sudden decision last month to lift nearly three years of lockdowns, quarantines and mass testing. …

2. Crematoriums are straining to deal with an influx of bodies, as the country battles a wave of Covid cases that authorities have admitted is impossible to track, news agency AFP reported.

3. In Chongqing – a city of 30 million where authorities this week urged people with “mild” Covid symptoms to go to work – one crematorium told AFP they had run out of space to keep bodies.

(via Lucianne)