Covid tests for dead people: grumbles in China amid tightening pandemic prevention measures and punishments
- Shenzhen’s only funeral home company is asking for Covid-19 tests for corpses from “high risk” areas
- In Shanghai, a person’s PhD career was sabotaged for playing with a cat without gloves

A series of Covid-19 prevention measures such as testing corpses for the coronavirus in Shenzhen is stirring mockery and griping from Chinese people who have endured massive disruptions to their lives since the Omicron variant landed on its doorstep.
A PhD student in the city was named and shamed because she played with a stray cat on campus without wearing gloves, which was considered to be a dangerous activity that could cause a coronavirus outbreak.

Shanghai Jiao Tong University issued a notice on Wednesday that said the student, surnamed Meng, would be disqualified from receiving any academic awards for breaching the university’s Covid-19 rules.
Meng was accused of “causing risks of spreading the coronavirus” and “being extremely irresponsible for themself, classmates and the university” by “using grass to tease a stray cat without wearing gloves”, the notice read.
