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Kenya: Man Turns Used Face Masks, Plastics Into Building Blocks

[Nation] Since the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic last year, the World Health Organization (WHO) recommended wearing face masks in public as one of the measures of curbing the spread of the disease globally.

Source: allAfrica.com

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