Bloomberg News estimated more than 10,000 cremations in Hubei in the last 3 months of 2019 , an increase from the number recorded from the previous year before the COVID-19 pandemic .
Bloomberg News calculated that there were 13,856 cremations in the Hubei capital in the fourth quarter of 2019 , more than 2,400 lower than the fourth quarter of 2018.
2019–20 coronavirus pandemic in mainland China