China’s Crematoriums, Hospitals Overwhelmed as COVID Surges Across Country

Relatives carry a picture frame of a loved at a crematorium in Beijing on Dec. 20, 2022. Noel Celis/AFP via Getty Images

A surge in COVID-19 cases in China has left crematoriums working around the clock to cope with the influx of bodies.

Prices for medical supplies have skyrocketed as patients struggle to get a bed at overwhelmed hospitals, where doctors and nurses have pushed on despite being sick with COVID-19 themselves.