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Haiti Street Vendors Have Little Knowledge of Looming Coronavirus Dangers

Sandra Lemaire

   WASHINGTON/PORT-AU-PRINCE - Vendors at the busy
   Croix-des-Bossalesmarket in downtown Port-au-Prince have not heard much
   about the coronavirus pandemic that is currently sweeping the world.

   VOA Creole found Monday that half of the vendors were busy trying to
   make ends meet and had no knowledge or incorrect information about the
   virus.
   "I haven't heard about it. I only came back to the capital yesterday,"
   a female vendor told VOA. "I do have a radio at home,but it's not
   working."
   "I heard it's people who eat mice who have this disease," a vendor in
   her 20s told VOA. "People who eat rats. I heard coronavirus is killing
   people,but I have no idea whether it's here in Haiti."
   Farther down the row of merchants, another female vendor had more
   accurate information.

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