3 Month Wait for Ashes at Shanghai Funeral Homes

Mourners gather outside the memorial halls for the deceased at a funeral home in Shanghai, China, on Dec. 31, 2022. Qilai Shen/Bloomberg via Getty Images

China’s Center for Disease Control (CDC) claimed on Feb. 4 that in the week before, there were 3,278 COVID-19 deaths in Chinese hospitals nationwide. However, information obtained from Shanghai’s funeral homes suggests that the Chinese authorities have heavily falsified the death figures.

In Shanghai alone, at least 2,640 remains are cremated every day at the 15 funeral homes in the city, according to an undercover investigation and analysis by The Epoch Times.

1 to 3 Months Wait Time for Ashes

An employee at Yishan Funeral Home, the largest funeral home in Shanghai, told The Epoch Times on Feb. 4 that the family of the deceased needs to wait one to three months to receive the ashes after the corpse is delivered to the funeral home.