South African coffin-maker saw Covid-19 at work and at home – Deccan Herald

The coffin-maker knew death too well. The boxes were stacked in his echoing workshop like the prows of ships waiting for passengers. Covid-19 was turning his business upside down.
Then it moved into his home.
Casey Pillay’s wife was a midwife, delivering babies for coronavirus-positive mothers in Johannesburg, the epicenter of the pandemic in South Africa once fifth in the world in number of cases and on the continent.
That she would be infected, they knew, was a matter of time.
When she fel…

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