Funeral Industry Businesses Booming in China

Funeral Industry Businesses Booming in China​

China in Focus

Are China’s #COVID19 #deathtoll numbers reliable? Beijing says about 60,000 died of the virus in recent weeks, from late December to early January. But internet users in China discovered the death count in just a single city far exceeds the official number for the entire country. Funeral homes in Beijing have the capacity to cremate about 130,000 people in that time frame. Removing those that died of natural causes, still more than 11,000 deaths could have been due to the virus.