Crematoriums in cities across China are straining to deal with an influx of bodies amid a widening COVID-19 outbreak, according to media reports, as authorities scrambled to install hospital beds and build fever-screening clinics. In total, China has reported just 5,242 COVID-19 deaths since the pandemic emerged in the central city of Wuhan in late 2019 – a very low toll by global standards. In Beijing, a city of 21 million, security guards were seen patrolling the entrance of a designated COVID-19 crematorium, where more than a dozen vehicles were waiting to enter.
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