#coronavirusdeaths #CoronavirusOutbreak #Wuhan funeral home worker confirmed daily cremation load saw sharp increase starting Jan 22-23. They're currently working at 4-5x normal capacity. Reached peak on Feb 7 with 127 bodies 1/n epochtimes.com/gb/20/2/8/n118…
This particular funeral home has 11 working furnaces, working round the clock @ 50 minutes per body. Estimated <40% of bodies originated from hospitals, more than 60% came directly from civilian homes. Of previous day's 127 bodies, only 8 received diag 2/ #CoronavirusOutbreak
42 were suspected cases, rest died without diagnoses bc they didn't receive medical care. Recording of phone interview done by interviewer posing as central gov't official. Interviewee was hesitant to reveal info bc they had strict orders to not report actual numbers. 3/
but interviewer tricked them by saying the city higher ups had told him that they're not that busy, only handled 40-50 bodies previous day. Interviewee got pissed, called senior officials dogs (狗官) and gave out the real numbers 4/
Interviewee stayed in contact with other funeral homes in the area, stated that all were in the same boat. They have a staff of 110 people, working 2 shifts since outbreak, each person gets 2-3 hrs sleep a day, haven't been home in days. 5/ #coronavirus
