While rural communities are vulnerable and at risk to coronavirus, there is, however, scarcity of information on how such communities perceive and respond to the pandemic. This chapter adopted a qualitative descriptive phenomenology to investigate the perceptions and coping strategies to the coronavirus pandemic in a rural Ghanaian community. Both purposive and snowball sampling techniques were employed to select 40 participants for interviews, in addition to overt observation. Findings show that participants have knowledge of coronavirus, which they reported to spread through interhuman transmission. Symptoms, such as difficulty in breathing, dyspnea, fever, sore throat, and dry cough, were perceived to be associated with coronavirus. The pandemic has disrupted sociocultural norms and activities, such as funerals and burials, in the community. Results further show that wearing nose masks, regular

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