Urns And Cell Phone Cancellations: Evidence Suggests China’s Coronavirus Death Toll May Be Much Higher Than Reported
Despite China’s claim that the COVID-19 virus only resulted in 3,300 deaths in Wuhan, local residents say they aren’t buying it.
An unlikely combination of urns used for cremation remains and canceled cell phone accounts indicate they have good reason to doubt their government.
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A Wuhan resident, identified only as
Zhang, told Radio Free Asia: “It can’t be right … because the incinerators
have been working round the clock, so how can so few people have died?”
China, a nation of well over a billion people, is perhaps the most smartphone-dependent country on earth. With nearly every adult communicating with each other through WeChat, that country’s most popular app, it was inevitable that hundreds of millions of Chinese citizens would compare notes and find faulty figures in the government’s reporting.
The website Claxin.com reported that the number of urns, 5,000, delivered to the Hankou Funeral Home in Wuhan in just 24 hours accounts for nearly 2,000 more deaths than the number of officially reported deaths for the entire region.
An online estimate based on the total cremation capacity of every funeral home in Wuhan combined is 1,500 bodies per day. Since all 84 furnaces have been operating pretty much non-stop since the beginning of the outbreak, that estimate puts the number of deaths in Wuhan around 46,800.
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A Wuhan resident, using the name Mao,
put the best spin he could on the number of cremations acknowledged by the
government saying:
“Maybe the authorities are gradually releasing the real figures, intentionally or unintentionally, so that people will gradually come to accept the reality.”
Another factor
masking the true number of fatalities is that city officials may be offering
hush money to families in exchange for their silence. Wuhan resident Chen
Yaohui said:
“There have been a lot of funerals in the past few days, and the authorities are handing out 3,000 yuan in hush money to families who get their loved ones remains laid to rest ahead of Qing Ming. It’s to stop them keeping (a traditional expression of grief); nobody’s allowed to keep after [the festival] Qing Ming has passed.”
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Yaohui added, “Before the epidemic
began, the city’s crematoriums typically cremated around 220 people a day,”
adding that China’s government had transferred
cremation workers to Wuhan to cremate bodies 24-hours a day.
Bloomberg News reports photos have circulated on Chinese social media that show thousands of urns being delivered to Wuhan. The Chinese media outlet, Claxin, reports trucks shipped in about 2,500 urns to one funeral home last Wednesday and Thursday.
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On a different front, there has been a dramatic rise in the cancellation of cell phone accounts in the country over the last three months.
The Manila Times’ Ben Kritz reports in an article entitled ‘The China cellphone mystery’ that something sinister may be up with the unusual number of cell phone account cancellations.
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China has “1.6
billion registered mobile accounts for an adult population of 1.1 billion
people.” However, 21 million mobile
accounts vanished over the past three months.
Kritz writes that there are a few possible explanations for the sudden cancellation of so many accounts, one being the possibility that the accounts were closed due to the deaths of their respective owners.
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Since the beginning of the outbreak
in Wuhan, the national “health code” system app has become increasingly
essential. First piloted in Hangzhou and now expanded to 100 cities, the system
requires the use of either the Alipay app or by Tencent’s WeChat.
According to Kritz, “The app assigns persons a green, yellow or red QR code that assesses whether they are at risk of infection by or spreading the coronavirus. … A green QR code is needed to enter apartment complexes, most businesses, public transit and other public facilities.”
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China’s largest provider, China Mobile, which added 3.732 million subscriptions in December 2019, has since seen its subscriber base decreased by 862,000. The numbers are similar for China’s second and third-largest carriers. China Telecom lost 430,000 subscribers and China Unicom lost 1.186 million in January.
There is no way to be certain how many people have died from COVID-19 in Wuhan, and there probably never will be. What is for certain, though, is that China’s coronavirus death toll is continuing to rise and the Chinese Communist Party hasn’t let up on the lies.
Steeve Strange is the CEO and Co-Founder of The Scoop. Follow Steeve on Twitter @TheScoopSteeve, on Instagram @TheScoopSteeve, and on Facebook @TheScoopSteeve.
