Masked security guards and a cemetery worker in a protective suit checking a woman's reservation code at the entrance gate of the Babaoshan cemetery during the Qingming festival in Beijing. Authorities were controlling access and limiting the number of people entering cemeteries across China during the annual Qingming festival which fell on Saturday (April 4). - AP
BEIJING: Nearly 13.4 million people in China used online platforms to mourn the deceased on Saturday, the Tomb-sweeping Day, the Ministry of Civil Affairs said on Sunday (April 5).
People set up commemorative space and wrote messages online instead of visiting tombs amid the Covid-19 pandemic, the ministry said.
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