Heartbreaking scenes as Covid-19 cases peak

Some of the new graves in the Covid-19 section of the Maitland cemetery. | IAN LANDSBERG African News Agency (ANA)

In protective clothing, a photojournalist visits Kliprand, a rural town with 205 residents. The town had been put under quarantine due to positive Covid-19 cases in almost every home. | HENK KRUGER African News Agency (ANA)

A funeral held in Mowbray, Cape Town (below). Regulations stipulated that bodies who died of Covid-19 had to be buried in plastic. The sites were only allowed to hold 50 people. | IAN LANDSBERG African News Agency (ANA)

Transnet-Phelophepa’s mobile health-care clinic in Phoenix, north of Durban (below). | MOTSHWARI MOFOKENG African News Agency (ANA)

Thembokuhle Shezi working at Ekuthuleni Primary School before schools reopened after having moved teaching and learning online. | MOTSHWARI MOFOKENG African News Agency (ANA)

Members of the Covid-19 Disinfect Now, in partnership with the Khayelitsha Development Forum, disinfecting Yomelela Primary School in Cape Town. | AYANDA NDAMANE African News Agency (ANA)

Despite major clean-ups at schools, a handful of concerned parents and learners picketed outside St Joseph’s in Eesterust, Pretoria.

They were calling for a total shutdown of the school. | THOBILE MATHONSI African News Agency (ANA)