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Funeral Home Director in China: Hospitals Have Sent Bodies With Cause of Death as ‘Unidentified Pneumonia’

Funeral Home Director in China: Hospitals Have Sent Bodies With Cause of Death as ‘Unidentified Pneumonia’
Medical staff are checking on a COVID-19 coronavirus patient at the Red Cross hospital in Wuhan, China on March 6, 2020. STR/AFP via Getty Images
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A funeral home director in the Chinese city of Jining recently discovered that some bodies the facility received from local hospitals had death certificates marked with “unidentified pneumonia” as the cause of death.

Jining is a city located in eastern China’s Shandong province.

Nicole Hao
Nicole Hao
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Nicole Hao is a Washington-based reporter focused on China-related topics. Before joining the Epoch Media Group in July 2009, she worked as a global product manager for a railway business in Paris, France.
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