Beijing Crematoriums Operate Around the Clock Amid a Recent Spike of COVID-19 Deaths

Medical workers wear PPE as they arrive with a patient on a stretcher at a fever clinic in Beijing, China, on Dec. 9, 2022. Kevin Frayer/Getty Images

Funeral homes and crematoriums in Beijing are extremely busy as the number of deaths increased significantly amid a recent flare-up of COVID-19 in China’s capital. The communist regime eased its stringent zero-COVID measures on Dec. 7.

Those employees infected by COVID-19 have to keep working, as the earliest open cremation slot is Dec. 20, an employee of Babaoshan Crematorium told the Chinese language edition of The Epoch Times on Dec. 14.