COVID-19: On the Ground in Monrovia, Liberia
Five years ago, Liberia was in a fight for its life. The small West African country threw everything it had in its health systems at the dreaded Ebola virus disease. By the time the epidemic was over, more than 11,000 people in the tri-state region of Guinea, Sierra Leone, and Liberia had died. Still based in Monrovia, Kamal Anisiobi writes about the impact of the 2020 Coronavirus pandemic. S uch is the severity of the situation that the President of Liberia George Manneh Weah saw it fit to drop an awareness song , sang by himself and other Liberian artists, to let his people know about this new fast-killing virus and ways of preventing it. Weah hopes to appeal to the nation of some 4.5 million people to ensure COVID-19 does not spread. Unfortunately, Environment Protection Agency Executive Director, Dr. Nathaniel Blamah was confirmed to be the first to test positive with COVID-19, the disease associated with the new strain of the coronavirus, after he recently returned from an o