Why there were few cases of coronavirus disease 2019 in Libya during the first two months of the pandemic

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a pandemic that affected almost all countries worldwide with more than 29,439,120 confirmed cases and 932,486 deaths recorded till on September 14, 2020 However, on May 25, 2020, after 2 months from the first reported case of COVID-19 in Libya, the country was among very few countries in the world that had very few cases of COVID-19 with a total of 75 confirmed cases and three deaths during the first 2 months since the detection of the first case on March 24, 2020 Based on the global epidemiological pattern of the disease, the magnitude of COVID-19 in Libya could have been much worse However, the reality is eccentrically different and the epidemiology exhibited different scenario with very few cases being recorded during the first 2 months of pandemic in Libya In this article, a review of COVID-19 situation in Libya is presented with thoughts about the potential reasons that could explain the very few cases of COVID-19 in the country in context with the global figures of the pandemic Copyright: Rayes, et al This article is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4 0 International License (http://creativecommons org/licenses/by/4 0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons org/ publicdomain/zero/1 0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated