{"id":169975,"date":"2023-01-23T12:47:25","date_gmt":"2023-01-23T12:47:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/?p=169975"},"modified":"2023-01-23T12:47:25","modified_gmt":"2023-01-23T12:47:25","slug":"families-forced-to-queue-outside-crematoriums-with-corpses-of-covid-victims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/world-news\/families-forced-to-queue-outside-crematoriums-with-corpses-of-covid-victims\/","title":{"rendered":"Families forced to queue outside crematoriums with corpses of Covid victims"},"content":{"rendered":"

Families have been forced to queue for hours outside a crematorium with the corpses of their relatives after Covid ravaged their country.<\/p>\n

China has been decimated by coronavirus in recent weeks having lifted strict lockdowns and travel restrictions, with the health ministry reporting 13,000 people had died from January 13-19.<\/p>\n

It has seen many services overrun, including crematoriums.<\/p>\n

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Videos shared by a funeral directors in Chengdu, southwest of China, showed a long queue of people carrying bodies on stretchers on the roadside at 4 o'clock in the morning.<\/p>\n

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They waited for hours until the crematorium opened so they could carry the deceased bodies to cremate them.<\/p>\n

Another video showed black smoke billowing out from the crematorium as a family wheeled a body up onto the front door.<\/p>\n

Viewers shared their thoughts in the comments, with one noted: "This is all too sad to watch, families wheeling bodies in, black smoke out from the chimney behind the buidling."<\/p>\n

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A second wrote: "We queue for food, queue for Covid test…and now dead bodies are in queue. Mad scene."<\/p>\n

"I lost both my parents to Covid, they must be rushing to send them off before Lunar New Year," a third added.<\/p>\n

China will be bracing for a new wave of Covid cases as tens of thousands of people travel across the country to celebrate the week-long Chinese New Year holiday with their families.<\/p>\n

It has been dubbed as the world's largest annual human migration and comes three years to the day after the Wuhan lockdown.<\/p>\n

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The long-waited reunions is the first major holiday in China, after Beijing dropping restrictions including the mass testing regime and mandatory quarantine policy.<\/p>\n

The total death toll is expected to be higher than what has been reported as the death count excludes those who died at home.<\/p>\n

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