Beijing, Europe Brief News – The COVID situation in China is giving nightmares to countries around the world.
Videos of bodies piling up at Chinese hospitals and funeral homes are going viral. As most funeral homes are overworked, thousands of bodies can be seen lying.
In an abrupt change of policy, China this month began the sudden dismantling of the world’s strictest COVID rules. This came following widespread protests.
The Chinese government has even stopped publishing the daily COVID figures. Watch this report for full information.
“The whole system is paralyzed right now,” said an employee who answered the phone at the Shanghai crematorium last week, the only number it has listed. “Things here are busier than anyone can handle.”
Similar scenes are playing out at funeral homes across China, where a seemingly endless flow of grieving families and exhausted workers tell the real story of Covid’s toll on the world’s second-biggest economy.
President Xi Jinping’s administration has officially acknowledged only about a dozen Covid deaths since it abandoned strict pandemic controls at the beginning of December, prompting governments around the world to impose restrictions on Chinese travelers.
A growing list of countries have begun imposing COVID restrictions on Chinese arrivals.
Several countries, including the US and France, are imposing restrictions on Chinese travellers for fear of another COVID-19 outbreak.
