Home-made videos featuring a catchy Vietnamese song and an accompanying dance about the necessity of hand-washing during the coronavirus crisis have racked up more than 2 million views on video app TikTok.
In Vietnam, the nation’s youth have taken to TikTok performing hand-washing dance moves, making sure to rub in-between their fingers and their fingernails which health professionals have recommended.
Spin-offs include office workers grooving at their desks and even people dressed in the Hmong ethnic minority outfits dancing in front of a waterfall.
“The remote village also prevents and fights the epidemic,” read the caption on a video featuring the Hmong couple.
Watch the viral safety video below:
The video was popularised by dancer and internet personality Qang Dang, who has nearly 300,000 followers on TikTok and Instagram, he and another dancer performed it with light-hearted swagger on a street with food vendors. The infectious track got so much attention, it sparked a trending dance called the
#ghencovychallenge on TikTok, choreographed by Dang.
It was tagged with the government-issued hashtag #ghencovychallenge, and Dang’s original video has been viewed more than 1.1 million times.
The song provides guidance on how to prevent infection, such as washing hands by “rub, rub, rubbing evenly” and limiting “visits to crowded places”.