![]() ![]() WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told reporters the agency needed more detailed information on disease severity, hospital admissions and requirements for intensive care units for a comprehensive assessment. Some Beijing residents have to wait days to cremate relatives or pay steep fees to secure faster service, funeral home workers said.Ī worker at one Beijing funeral parlour posted on social media an offer of "speedy arrangement of hearses, no queue for cremation" for a fee of 26,000 yuan ($3,730). Reuters could not verify whether the deaths were caused by COVID. Staff wore hazmat suits and smoke rose from five of the 15 furnaces. ![]() Inside, family and friends, many wearing traditional white clothing and headbands of mourning, gathered around about 20 coffins awaiting cremation. The head of the World Health Organization said it is concerned about the spike in infections and is supporting the government to focus on vaccinating those at the highest risk.Īmid a heavy police presence outside a crematorium in Beijing's Tongzhou district, a Reuters witness saw about 40 hearses queuing to enter while the parking lot was full. Experts say China could face more than a million COVID deaths next year. The abrupt change caught a fragile health system unprepared, with hospitals scrambling for beds and blood, pharmacies for drugs and authorities racing to build special clinics. By Thomas Peter and Alessandro DiviggianoīEIJING (Reuters) - Dozens of hearses queued outside a Beijing crematorium on Wednesday, even as China reported no new COVID-19 deaths in its growing outbreak, sparking criticism of its virus accounting as the capital braces for a surge of cases.Īfter widespread protests, the country of 1.4 billion people this month began dismantling its unpopular "zero-COVID" lockdown and testing regime, which largely kept the virus under control for three years though at great economic and psychological cost. ![]()
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