[World Now] “From 5 to 6 days to cremate”… the number of infected people rises in Beijing

A video that is spreading on social twitter. In front of the Babaoshan Funeral Home in Beijing, China. It has the largest crematorium and ossuary in Beijing. On the road, black vans that look like means of transport stretch endlessly.

Free Asia Broadcasting RFA reported the day before yesterday (14) that there was a long queue for transport vehicles in front of the funeral hall as there was no place to enshrine the deceased as the number of corona infections was exploding in Beijing . A funeral home official told RFA: “The crematorium operates 24 hours a day.”

The editor of the video said, “The queue started the day before and the motorcade proceeded to Jangan-daero.” Chang’an Avenue is a thoroughfare that runs through central Beijing.

Babaoshan Funeral Home has 19 furnaces, estimated to be able to process 50 in 24 hours.

RFA also received a reply from a funeral home in Tongzhou District, which said, “You have to wait 5 to 6 days to cremate.”

There were 494 new cases of COVID-19 in Beijing yesterday and 1944 cases on the mainland, according to the National Health Commission of China. There are no casualties.

However, there is a problem with this figure.

China, which had counted symptomatic and asymptomatic cases separately, decided not to announce asymptomatic cases from the day before. In the case of symptomatic people, they are those who have symptoms and are tested and counted by the quarantine authorities, and asymptomatic people are the number of people found in a regular total inspection. Under quarantine mitigation measures that will not be tested, people who have been “accidentally” caught in the quarantine net will no longer be counted. If the tests are done correctly, the number of patients could explode even more.

On the 13th, a pharmacy in Wangjing, Beijing closed with a notice saying there was no medicine. (Source: Viewer Report)

The medical crisis is becoming a reality. A pharmacy in Wangjing, where Koreans live together, announced that it would be closed because it was out of stock. There were also long queues at the fever clinic, which was set up separately in the hospital. Hong Kong media South China Morning Post SCMP reported that medical personnel have also been infected, and infected medical personnel have been fielded.