Not everyone is feeling the love while stuck at home during the coronavirus pandemic. In China, where the COVID-19 outbreak first began, divorce rates are rising after couples were forced into mandatory lockdown together to prevent the virus’ spread.
Divorce filings started to rise in the country as couples began to emerge from quarantine. “On March 16, we went through 18 pairs of divorce registration procedures and obviously felt that the number of divorces had surged in the near future,” Yi Xiaoyan, director of the city’s marriage registration centre, told reporters.
Since Feb. 10, the number of divorce registrations in the city has reached 206, compared to 311 marriages. “It takes 40 minutes to one hour to complete a divorce procedure,