Life has edged back toward normal after a surge in infections in South Africa in June and July that threatened to overwhelm public hospitals. Many of the more than 1 million graves that Gauteng province, home of Johannesburg, once hurriedly mapped out have gone unused. Still, the toll from COVID-19 _ which has killed more than 16,000 people in South Africa, nearly half of the continent's over 35,000 deaths _ has been painful, and the world surpassing 1 million confirmed deaths has again led to reflection. "It has been a crazy, crazy, crazy couple of months," Pillay said.
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