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Digital Desk: Following the relaxation of Covid-19 restrictions, China has seen a significant increase in coronavirus cases. According to epidemiologist and health economist Eric Feigl-Ding, hospitals in China are completely overcrowded.
The epidemiologist predicts that within the next 90 days, more than 60% of China and 10% of the earth's population are likely to contract the disease, with millions of deaths expected.
According to the Wall Street Journal, one of Beijing's designated crematoriums for Covid-19 victims has been swamped with dead bodies in recent days as the virus sweeps through the Chinese capital, providing an early indication of the human cost of the country's unexpected relaxing of pandemic regulations.
According to Feigl-Ding, the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) purpose is "let whoever needs to be infected, infected, let whoever needs to die, die. Early infections, early deaths, early peak, early resumption of production."
China has confirmed no Covid deaths in Beijing after the authorities declared four deaths between November 19 and November 23. The State Council's information office did not immediately respond to a request for comment made late Friday.
Beijing Dongjiao Crematory, on the eastern edge of the Chinese capital, has experienced a jump in requests for cremation and other funerary services, according to people who work at the compound, reported WSJ.
"Since the Covid reopening, we've been overloaded with work," said a lady who answered the phone at the crematorium on Friday, adding, "Right now, it's 24 hours a day. We can't keep up."
The woman claimed that Dongjiao Crematory, which is run by the city of Beijing and has been designated by the National Health Commission to treat Covid-positive cases, was receiving so many bodies that it was conducting cremations in the early morning and late at night. "There is no other way," she said.
She estimated that the crematorium received almost 200 bodies daily, up from 30 or 40 on an average day. The increased workload has stressed the crematorium employees, several of whom have fallen infected with the rapidly spreading virus in recent days, she said.
Men who work at the property, which contains a funeral hall as well as a small complex of shops selling burial clothes, flowers, caskets, urns, and other funerary products, said the number of corpses had increased significantly in recent days, but no one could estimate the scale of the rise, as reported by the WSJ.
Doubling time in China may no longer be days. Some analysts believe that doubling time currently could take "hours"—let that sink in. R is challenging to calculate if the doubling time is less than one day since PCR testing is challenging at that speed. The world and China are in serious trouble said Feigl-Ding.
Additionally, the number of deaths in mainland China is vastly underreported. In Beijing, there has been a recent explosion in funeral services brought on by the sharp rise in deaths, according to a survey of hospitals, funeral homes, and related funeral industry chains.
The epidemiologist claims that cremations are continuously taking place in Beijing. The mortuaries are overcrowded. Refrigerated containers are needed. Funerals are conducted around the clock. There are 2000 remains waiting to be cremated. Sounds familiar? It's spring 2020 all over again, but this time China's mass infection strategy is more Western-style.
People flocked to a pharmaceutical plant to purchase ibuprofen, which was fully sold out elsewhere.
According to one, all of the day's dead are routinely cremated by midday. However, due to the recent increase in the quantity of dead, cremations are now taking place well after night.
In a series of dramatic measures this month, China eliminated most of the lockdown, testing, and quarantine regimes that had underpinned its 'Zero Covid' approach over the previous three years to suppress even minor outbreaks of the virus.
The scale of China's coronavirus outbreak has been difficult to determine due to the relaxation of testing measures. Daily national case counts have gradually declined as fewer people test themselves at public facilities, and for the first time since the outbreak began, health officials stopped reporting a daily tally of asymptomatic cases earlier this week.
Earlier this month, the Beijing Emergency Medical Centre recommended only critically ill patients to call for ambulances, claiming that emergency requests had increased to 30,000 per day from an average of approximately 5,000, straining the capacity of paramedics to react, according to the WSJ.
According to National Health Commission regulations, corpses diagnosed as Covid-positive or suspected of being Covid-positive must be burned immediately in specially designated furnaces, with no dressing or memorial services.
However, many of China's 1.4 billion people remain vulnerable to the virus due to limited exposure, low vaccination rates, and inadequate investment in emergency care.
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