He maintained that poor sanitary conditions, lack of electricity, high rate of unemployment, among others make the imposition of a lockdown mandate to prevent the spread of the coronavirus inapplicable in Liberia. He added that Liberia’s health system remains backward as compare to countries in the Americas, Asia, and Europe that have already introduced a lockdown to curb COVID-19. He maintained that most people initially died from the Ebola virus outbreak in Liberia because, the command and control center was not functional. “Lockdown of Monrovia will not stop the spread of the coronavirus; and it will not stop the spread of the coronavirus in any Africa cities. No number of lockdown will stop the disease; we are putting people into more poverty; we are creating agitation.

Source: Front Page Africa April 15, 2020 02:48 UTC