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Surge in Recruitments at Funeral Homes Across China Reveals a Far Greater COVID Death Toll

Surge in Recruitments at Funeral Homes Across China Reveals a Far Greater COVID Death Toll
A coffin is loaded from a hearse into a storage container at the Dongjiao crematorium and funeral home, one of several in the city that handles COVID-19 cases, in Beijing on Dec. 18, 2022. Getty Images
Kathleen Li
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Sean Tseng
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News Analysis

Funeral homes in China have been actively recruiting new employees and temporary staff amid the major COVID-19 outbreak, with a surge of job postings appearing all over domestic employment websites. Experts and Chinese crematorium workers say China’s COVID death toll is vastly underreported.

Kathleen Li has contributed to The Epoch Times since 2009 and focuses on China-related topics. She is an engineer, chartered in civil and structural engineering in Australia.
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