With deaths surging in major cities in China amid the recent flare-up of COVID, funeral-related businesses are lacking in supplies such as coffins, wreaths, tombstones, and graveclothes, according to owners.
People from Beijing are now looking for funeral-related items, such as coffins and burial garments, in neighboring provinces as they cannot find any in the capital. Coffin shops in China’s central Hebei Province and eastern Jiangsu Province have been operating overtime but still cannot satisfy the growing demand for these items.
Coffins Sold Out in Beijing: Shop Owner
Mr. Liu (pseudonym) is a coffin shop owner in Beijing. He told the Chinese language edition of The Epoch Times on Jan. 3 that there is a shortage of funeral goods, including coffins and burial garments, in Beijing due to the sudden spike in deaths at the same time that the regime abruptly scraped its zero-COVID measures….