FILE PHOTO: A man stands at a window at a residential community in Jingzhou, after the lockdown was eased in Hubei province, the epicentre of China's coronavirus outbreak. REUTERS/Aly SongJINGZHOU, China: Ten unclaimed urns sit in the crematorium in Jingzhou, a city in central China's Hubei province hard-hit by coronavirus.
The coronavirus has infected more than half a million people and killed some 25,000 in more than 200 countries. In China, where it began, the virus has upended not only daily life but also how the dead are given a send-off, due to its highly contagious nature. Without funerals Sheng's staff, like crematorium workers across much of China, get right to work, some in full surgical outfits with blue coveralls and hair covers like blue shower caps.
Staff at the facility where Sheng has worked for 29 years now take shifts around the clock, in case a call comes from the hospital in the middle of the night to collect the body of a coronavirus victim, he said. Previously, they cremated bodies in the morning.Easing the burden somewhat of late has been the slowdown in domestic virus cases and a drop in traffic deaths as harsh restrictions on movement curtail driving.
China has reported more than 81,000 coronavirus infections and 3,300 deaths, mostly in Wuhan, where the virus is thought to have first infected people at a seafood market.
Most dead are not even reported
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I'm imagining there are people in China like me do not expect 'farewells and ceremonies' but will nonetheless have my corpse abused by Christians or some other equally dishonest group believing an imaginary Bronze Age Skygod was told to inflict indignity to my dead human body
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