A National period of mourning was held on Saturday, this Year’s Tomb Sweeping Day to commemorate martyrs who sacrificed their lives in the fight against the COVID-19 outbreak and compatriots who died of the novel coronavirus pneumonia .
Staff Staff members of Office of Scientific Research and Development joined all the Chinese people, and observed three minutes of silence to mourn for the deceased at Jiuli and Xipu campuses. Air raid sirens and horns of automobiles, trains and ships wailed in grief.
National flag on the two campus have been lowered to half-mast as all other national flags across the country and at Chinese embassies and consulates abroad, and all public recreational activities will be suspended throughout the country.
Saturday marks this year's Qingming Festival, or Tomb-Sweeping Day – a traditional festival for Chinese families to visit the tombs of their ancestors to clean the gravesites, pray to their ancestors and make ritual offerings. As of Friday night, an accumulative number of 3,326 people had died of the contagion on the Chinese mainland.
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