Health Feature Stories in Africa
Where amid growing support across Africa and caution by the World Health Organization, WHO; some people are queuing on a daily basis to receive the virus prevention and treating cure, COVID-Organics. In front of the town hall in the capital, Robert is impatient waiting for his turn to access the herbal tea made from artemisia. Reports indicate that 250 liters of this herbal tea is distributed every day. https://www.africanews.com/2020/05/14/madagascar-s-covid-organics-testimonies-and-medical-caution/
Our next feature will be on researchers grappling with the need to find a coronavirus vaccine and drug, this country shook the world with its newest findings on the Covid-19 testing. For one month now, they have a taken global presence and its place as a global trailblazer in the quest to invent a rapid testing kit for Covid-19. https://new.standardmedia.co.ke/article/2001369392/senegal-develops-one-dollar-rapid-testing-kit-for-covid-19
And finally The Covid-19 tally in this country stands at 39 cases, the lowest in the region. Officials say they were holding up to 3,000 people in quarantine and could test them several times for them to be released. https://www.nation.co.ke/news/africa/Eritrea-Covid-19-success-story/1066-5551560-fhl0y6/index.html
People Feature
The Somalis share their origins and genetic makeup with most of the Horn of Africa, Sudan and as far south as Kenya. ... They are a mix of Cushitic sub-Saharan African indigenous populations and Arabian populations, either Semitic or pre-Semitic. Somalis are therefore mixed sub-Saharan African and West Asiatic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CYVIBHFiug
Did you know from Africa
The earliest recorded dentist not only in Egypt but in the world was Hesyre, who is evidenced from six exquisitely carved wooden panels that were found in his tomb at Saqqara near modern day Cairo, and which are generally considered to be the finest wood artefacts handed down from antiquity
https://www.nature.com/articles/sj.bdj.2009.355