China’s eastern Zhejiang Province saw a spike in cremations in the first quarter, official data showed. China observers believe the provincial data indicates that the actual COVID-19 death toll in the country could be much higher than what the leadership in Beijing had reported. Due to Chinese authorities’ past record of underreporting infections and covering up information,…

Several Chinese immigrants who recently arrived in the United States can now describe what they witnessed last December when a severe wave of the COVID-19 pandemic broke out in China. The sudden lifting of the stringent lockdowns on Dec. 7 is believed to have prompted a nationwide infection of COVID from the end of last…

On the road leading to a crematorium in China’s southern city of Nanjing where thick black smoke was billowing into the sky, the line of cars was so long that it wasn’t clear where it ended. On the curb squatted a woman wearing a white mourning hat with her face buried in her hands, her…

Despite the Lunar New Year in full play for 15 days, from Jan. 22 to Feb. 5, people in China are not in a celebratory mood. Beijing residents suffered a surge in COVID cases after the regime suddenly lifted the lockdown and eased up on the COVID restrictions. Instead of celebrating the Lunar New Year,…

Residents in rural China have described a surge in deaths in their townships and local crematoriums operating around the clock amid a severe COVID wave sweeping the country. As Chinese officials acknowledge that 80 percent of the population has been infected with COVID-19, concerns have risen about the outbreak situation in the countryside, given the…

Manufacturers of coffins, urns, and other funeral supplies in China said they are experiencing an unprecedented shortage. The Chinese language edition of The Epoch Times recently learned of the shortage from inquiries to multiple urn and coffin manufacturers. Coffins Out of Stock A netizen from Zhejiang, an eastern coastal province of China, revealed in a…

A casket burned in the open air in China as funeral homes are grappling with overcrowding. A makeshift crematory is under construction in Beijing, set to house 200 new cremation furnaces. A health department in a Chinese province admitted to large-scale infection for the first time. The death of a Chinese official is casting a…

A crematory in the Tongzhou District of Beijing announced a limit to bodies of non-residents, according to Beijing Youth Daily Thursday. The crematory has to “maintain cremation equipment” and accepts a maximum of 20 bodies daily from people who don’t have district residence certificates and have died in hospitals outside of the district, a notice…

Crematoriums across China are being overwhelmed as the country experiences a flare-up of the pandemic following the relaxing of zero-COVID rules. In Shenyang, in China’s northeastern Liaoning Province, residents say deaths have spiked since the government decided to lift lockdowns and mandatory testing. However, it is difficult to confirm that the deaths are due to COVID-19…

Recently, it was revealed that a Shanghai aged care center sent a living person to a funeral home as the deceased. Shanghai authorities have admitted the incident, but could not quell the public outrage. On May 1, a video of a person in a body bag being transferred from the New Long March Welfare Institute…