Africa News of Thursday, 7 May 2020
Source: bbc.com
Kenyan health officials are giving communities safer options to substitute traditions that require physical contact in the wake of coronavirus outbreak
Instead of a traditional handshake between traders in northern Kenya's animal markets to signify the completion of a trade deal, health officials are showing them how to use herders' sticks or an elder's stick.
Here is a tweet from the ministry of health demonstrating the new way of sealing trade deals:
A Health Promotion official in Garissa County demonstrates the best way of bargaining at the goat market using sticks instead of shaking hands to fight #COVID19 in the area. @garissahealth team also installed four hand washing facilities in the market. #KomeshaCorona update pic.twitter.com/xAhjxmxomU
— Ministry of Health (@MOH_Kenya) May 6, 2020