Tag: funeral homes

White House Criticizes China for Not Being ‘Fully Transparent’ About COVID Numbers

During a White House press briefing on Jan. 25, National Security Council Coordinator for Strategic Communications John Kirby said that China hasn’t been “fully transparent” about COVID numbers. “And we cannot speak to the veracity of those numbers. We urge China to be fully transparent about what’s going on.” Under increasing international pressure to share…


Surge in Recruitments at Funeral Homes Across China Reveals a Far Greater COVID Death Toll

News Analysis Funeral homes in China have been actively recruiting new employees and temporary staff amid the major COVID-19 outbreak, with a surge of job postings appearing all over domestic employment websites. Experts and Chinese crematorium workers say China’s COVID death toll is vastly underreported. As China battles the infection surge that followed its lifting…


California Funeral Homes Run Out of Space as Pandemic Claims More Lives

LOS ANGELES—As communities across the country feel the pain of a surge in coronavirus cases, funeral homes in the hot spot of Southern California say they must turn away grieving families as they run out of space for the bodies piling up. The head of the state funeral directors association says mortuaries are being inundated…