Amidst the recent surge in the number of corona19 infections in China, satellite images have captured images of crematoria in major cities full of cars and waiting lines.
On the 9th (local time), the Washington Post (WP), an American daily, analyzed satellite images taken from crematoria and funeral homes in China and reported that crematoria are saturated due to the rapid increase in the number of deaths from Corona 19 in China.
WP compared and presented satellite images taken on the 6th and 24th of last month, respectively, of four crematoria in representative cities of China, including Beijing, Kunming, Nanjing and Chengdu. These images were taken by Maxar Technologies, a private US satellite company.
Unlike the calm state on the 6th of last month, before the Chinese authorities relaxed quarantine regulations, if you look at the photos on the 24th of the same month, you can see a clear increase in the activity of people and vehicles around the these crematoria, and you can also see cars waiting in line WP has been analyzed
“Compared to similar times in the past few years, traffic has increased at many funerals and crematoria in Chinese cities in recent months,” said Stephen Wood, senior director of Maxar Technologies.
A receptionist at a funeral home in southwest China’s Guizhou Province said that in the last two weeks of December, 250 bodies were being processed each day, more than twice the daily peak before the COVID-19 quarantine measures. All the morgues are full and the incinerators operate 24 hours a day, he added.
Jinmo, 29, a resident who used a funeral home in Nanjing, said he waited a whole day before moving his grandfather’s body to the crematorium. The video, which Jin posted on social media and then deleted, showed a long line of vans and plumes of smoke filling the sky above the crematorium.
The WP, in another video shared by Jin, said vans were placed on the road more than 300 meters away from the facility.
“The truck driver said, ‘I’ve been doing this for decades, but I’ve never seen a situation like this,'” Jin said. “It’s very sad.”
A funeral home in Chengdu has stopped offering funeral services along with cremation, allowing mourners just two minutes to say goodbye before the body is cremated.
This series of figures shows that the number of deaths from Corona 19 in China is much higher than the government statistics, WP noted.
According to the newspaper, the Chinese government has not folded its claim that the number of deaths from Corona 19 in China has been less than 40 since December 7, when various quarantine regulations were lifted.
Meanwhile, the Chinese quarantine authorities classified and published deaths from pneumonia and respiratory failure as Corona 19 deaths only, but when criticism intensified that these statistics differed from reality, they stopped publishing related statistics at all from the end last month.
Experts estimate that the actual death toll from COVID-19 in China is close to 5,000 per day. Some predict the annual death toll from COVID-19 will exceed 1 million this year, WP reported.
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