Shake it off

SIR – In South West Tanganyika, we are in many respects long way behind the London (and Liverpool) School of Tropical Medicine and their excellent professors (Letters, July 26), yet we are way ahead of the UK in ditching handshakes. For months, encounters in the villages and local hospital have seen a nudging of elbows, a bright “Corona!” greeting and a chuckle.

Church services were never suspended here (instead, the president called on people of faith throughout the nation to pray) and the Peace is shared during Mass with a waving of hands in the air, rippling through the congregation – quite the most sanitary means of salutation.

Dr Adrian Murray

Milo, Ludewa, Tanzania