CDC Secretary General Nathaniel McGill said Liberians are dying in their numbers from the virus everyday and as such it behooves all Liberians to see reason to join the Government in preventing the spread of the virus to non-affected areas.

According to the Liberia News Agency, the CDC official made the call in an interview with reporters on the compound of the National Elections Commission in Monrovia, where he had gone to attend a NEC consultative meeting with political party and independent candidates vying in the Mid-term Senatorial Elections.

McGill said it was not time for anyone to play politics with the ongoing epidemic, adding, “We as Liberians must exert joint efforts to eradicate the virus from our midst.”

He appealed to Liberians to follow all safety measures that the Ministry of Health would put in place, saying that the existence of the Ebola virus in Liberia is real.

By Richard Stephens

LINA RS/JGT/TSS/PTK