Trending in China: Funeral Home Insists on Covid Test Result — for the Deceased

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When Shenzhen’s only funeral home asked mourners to provide the nucleic acid test results of a deceased, it met with plenty of ridicule on Weibo.

The hashtag #Shenzhen requires mourners to provide nucleic acid test result of the deceased #深圳要求提供逝者核酸检测证明 was viewed over 35 million times by Thursday afternoon, garnering more than 3,000 comments on the social media platform Weibo.

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