South Africa has made global news on reaching 500,000 CV-19 cases. 

That's the bad news. With it, we have now reached over 8,000 deaths, to rank 5th overall on infections. 

The indications were that we would peak in August. That seems to be holding true. 

We are no longer growing exponentially and the graph has started to flatten. 

Our worst day for deaths saw 600 victims. That has not been repeated before or since then.

Indeed, while there have been intermittent spikes, our death graph is now flattening, but may be dropping. 

Yesterday deaths fell below 200. Cases are also now starting to drop below 10,000 a day. 

Case counts have definitely peaked and are starting to reduce. Death rates will follow that trend. 

More importantly, our recovery rate now exceeds 2/3rds. 

Our deaths per million, at 137, is now 37th ranked in the world. 

It seems that the thaw of winter is bringing us out of this crisis, although we dare not drop our guard. 

The US is in summer and has surged dangerously. 

Global infections have now also exceeded 18 million and almost 700,000 deaths. But the global graphs has also peaked. 

Now the hope is that a vaccine appears before the populated northern hemisphere enters winter, when a new spike is expected.   

(c) Peter Missing @ me2u2all.blogspot.com