Posted on 03/17/2022 8:39:14 AM PDT by shadowlands1960
The bodies of coronavirus victims in Hong Kong are being stored in refrigerated shipping containers as a deadly Omicron surge pushes morgues past capacity, harrowing photos show.
Photos obtained Wednesday by AFP show workers in full personal protective equipment putting corpses into a refrigerated container at a mortuary in Hong Kong, where more than 4,600 deaths and nearly 1 million infections have been tallied in the past three months.
The rising death toll has pushed local morgues to the brink and exhausted Hong Kong’s supply of coffins. Just 300 remain and those are expected to be depleted by this weekend, AFP reported.
Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam said Wednesday two more shipments of coffins were expected to arrive from mainland China by sea.
Authorities have been trying to help families retrieve bodies of loved ones without having a death certificate issued by a physician, Lam said.
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One hopes they are refrigerated containers....
Wow I guess omicron is only deadly in china,, everywhere else it is the sniffles
No one in that pic looks like they are doing what the story claims.
Woops, Hong Kong I mean
Back at work whipping up the ‘Rona panic. Don’t hurt yourselves, guys.
I call BS on this being from the Omicron variant.
The conspiracy theorist in me wonders if a bad acting gov, couldn’t just kill lots of people off and call it Covid.
I heard someone on radio explaining this in reverse of conventional wisdom - he was arguing that the citizens of Hong Kong are ‘too skinny.’ It is very odd.
Starved to death or executed is more likely than Omicron.
Are we to believe this again?
Did you believe it the first time?
Fake news.
Didnt this photo also be reported to show holding bodies Ukraines, or was it all the cops the Trumpers killed on Jan 6?
They ran out of suitcases?....................
Will they get here to they USA in time for the mid-terms with the supply chain the way it is? /s
Yeah, I don’t see any cooling towers in the one pic. But, can the piles of bodies be seen from space? That’s usually how we verify stuff.
Any real deaths are probably due to Xi wiping out Hong Kong’s surviving dissidents.
One that read the story knows they specified it at least 3 times.
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