TWO minute funerals, overnight queues for cremation slots and incinerators blasting 24-hours a day - death is a booming industry in China right now.
Despite the state's desperate claims that Covid is under control, satellite images expose that funeral services are totally overwhelmed and bodies are quickly mounting.
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China's ruling party has been peddling the official line that only around 40 deaths have occurred since December 7 - the day that the brutal "zero Covid" restrictions were finally lifted.
In reality, the airborne virus has since been ravaging through its population of 1.45 billion who suffer from low natural immunity as a result of China's harsh Covid policies and less effective vaccines.
Since the virus first appeared in Wuhan in 2019, the Chinese Community Party has been waging an ideological battle to declare that their approach is superior to that of western democracies.
The result has been an allegedly pitiful and systematic underrepresentation of Covid cases and deaths recorded in the official data.