Liberia: Stopping the Denial and Embracing the COVID-19 War - a Call to Action

Monrovia — I looked at her lips moving up and down, as she spoke. Words were plentifully jumping out between them just like popcorn dancing in a hot pot. That's what she's been doing, not giving her friends time to explain the reality. Her mind was made up!

"Mr. Sengbeh, I don't believe this whole thing. This whole coronavirus thing here that kuku-jumuku business. You na inside you na know," Martu (not her real name), asserted. "No corona here. It is in China, its America and other countries, but our own da lie 'kolokolo'. The people just looking for money like the Ebola time, that's all," she insisted.

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