As Wuhan emerges from coronavirus lockdown, residents are finally lining up to bury their dead

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As Wuhan emerges from coronavirus lockdown, residents are finally lining up to bury their dead
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This week, people in Wuhan are going back to work, businesses and shops are reopening, and cars and pedestrians are back on the once-deserted streets, but for many people, Wuhan will never be the same

Cemeteries were ordered to close, too., transport shut and funerals off, the remains of thousands of people who died both from coronavirus and other causes were stored at funeral homes. Families were told to await government advice on when they could be collected.

Zhang, the Shenzhen resident, had been anxious to bury his father, who had worked at a Wuhan university before retiring. Zhang said he was"repulsed" by the idea of strangers intruding on the last moments with his father's remains. Peng Yating, a 34-year-old education consultant, rushed to the Biandanshan Cemetery in Wuhan in the first light of dawn on March 28.

"Perhaps because it was still early, today's cemetery was eerily quiet. Many family members have come, but they did not make noise, cry, or express their disaffection. They were just silently standing in line, waiting for their number to be called," she wrote in a"The dead can no longer speak, but the living did not want to speak either."

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