'Bye bye Ebola': Sierra Leone rapper's video hits the right noteFrom twerking policemen to acrobatic footballers, residents rejoice in Block Jones clip celebrating end of the country’s epidemic
http://youtube.com/watch?v=YRhXoLjHruM&feature=youtu.beSierra Leonean rapper, Block Jones, is a master of understatement. “Ebola passed by the nation, it caused some frustration,” he sings in a music video released to mark the end of the epidemic that ravaged the country, infecting 8,704 people and killing 3,589.
The virus wiped out entire families, devastated communities and forced people to change their lives after the first case was identified in May 2014
But on Saturday the country marked 42 days since any new cases were diagnosed. This, according to the World Health Organisation, means that it is safe to declare the epidemic over.
“Thank God it’s gone, a new day has come,” raps Jones, in the song featuring the Freetown Uncut collective. The video is called Bye Bye Ebola, and it might just be the most heartwarming three minutes on the internet.
It shows staff in Ebola treatment centres, fully garbed in their protective rubber suits, dancing in empty wards. You will see policemen twerking at the checkpoints that were vital to prevent the disease’s spread of the disease.
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