Kenyan Health officials are giving communities safer options to replace traditions that require physical contact to reduce the spread of Coronavirus.
Instead of the traditional handshake between goat-traders in the Northern part of Kenya to show completion of a deal, health officials are showing them how to use the herders’ sticks.
Below is a tweet from the ministry of health showing a new way of sealing 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
The other tradition affected by the coronavirus is elaborate burials. The government wants coronavirus victims buried within 24 hours while those who die from other causes be buried by close family members not exceeding 15.
Read More:
Kenyan government bans movement in and out of Old Town and Eastleigh
Kenyan returnees arrive from Britain
KCAA confirms a Kenyan plane carrying coronavirus medical supplies crashed in Somalia
