FILE - Health workers wearing protective suits as a precaution lower the body of a COVID-19 victim for burial at a graveyard in Gulu, northern Uganda. (Sally Hayden/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)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.Kasie 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 fell ill during the country’s surge in cases, she.