'No farewells, no ceremonies': China's Hubei cremates coronavirus dead

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JINGZHOU, Hubei: Ten unclaimed urns sit in the crematorium in Jingzhou, a city in central China's Hubei province hard-hit by coronavirus. Not ...

JINGZHOU, Hubei: 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 about 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. "In the past, before the epidemic, there would be a vigil of up to three days and we would carry out our work after," said Sheng, a red China flag pin in the lapel of his white lab coat.

Of the crematorium's eight furnaces, one is dedicated to coronavirus victims, whose families may not see the body before it is cremated. Jingzhou, a transportation and tourism hub of six million people 220km west of Wuhan, is Hubei's sixth-worst-hit city, with 1,580 infections and 52 deaths - half of those bodies were cremated at Sheng's facility, he says.

 

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