News Analysis
Funeral homes in China have been actively recruiting new employees and temporary staff amid the major COVID-19 outbreak, with a surge of job postings appearing all over domestic employment websites. Experts and Chinese crematorium workers say China’s COVID death toll is vastly underreported.
As China battles the infection surge that followed its lifting of pandemic restrictions in early December, scientists and journalists worldwide continue to look for clues to the outbreak’s actual death toll.
At the start of 2020, when the pandemic first broke out, China’s funeral service industry gained 6,398 new employees, according to official data. Meanwhile, new employment in the Chinese funeral industry has continued to increase throughout 2021 and 2022….