Berlinale artistic director Carlo Chatrian and executive director Mariëtte Rissenbeck unveiled the International Competition and Encounters line-ups on Monday for the festival’s 73rd edition, running February 16 to 26.
Bodies burned in streets of China as Covid deaths overwhelm funeral homes
04.01.2023 - 22:47 / dailyrecord.co.uk
Terrifying images from China appear to show families burning the bodies of loved ones as Covid infections overwhelm hospitals in the country.
Reports that China is suffering from as many as one million new cases per day has led to fear of new variants. It comes after Beijing axed its 'zero-Covid ' policy last month, following three years of strict curbs.
However, Chinese officials say only 5,000 people have died from Covid-19 since the U-turn. Alarming footage shared online showed bodies piling up in hospitals and crematoriums in recent weeks.
Funeral homes and hospitals are believed to have been overwhelmed, as international health experts predict over two million Covid deaths in the coming months across China. The footage of fires in the streets of China purportedly shows the makeshift cremations in rural areas.
Another clip, believed to have come from Shanghai, shows local residents in a car park between high-rise apartment blocks, around what appeared to be another makeshift pyre. More clips have emerged from the city, with two showing bodies being burned in a similar way - with residents laying the body out on bed sheets. The mourners then fanned the flames with tree branches.
The cost of cremations is believed to have led to many impoverished Chinese people being reduced to such means. An image posted to Weibo, the Chinese blog site, showed a man telling his neighbours in a text message that his father had died and he had been unable to afford the service.
He subsequently told them that he would "find an open space" to burn his father's remains. Bloomberg reported that another Weibo user says that they "couldn't afford to live under lockdown" and could not afford to die, either.
A Beijing funeral service provider told
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