Complacency and mistrust in government mean Liberians are turning their backs on Covid jabs In a country with a low number of cases, people are unsure why they need to be vaccinated The first shipments of Covax vaccines arrive in west Africa in February Credit: Diomande Ble Blonde/AP In a country that has seen just over 2,000 official cases of Covid and 85 deaths, it is easy to understand why Liberia has found it hard to muster a lot of enthusiasm for a Covid vaccine. It took almost four weeks from the shipment of 96,000 doses of the AstraZeneca jab - via the Covax vaccine sharing initiative - arriving in the capital Monrovia to the first shot going into an arm.