Home-made videos featuring a catchy Vietnamesesong and an accompanying dance about thenecessity of hand-washing during the coronaviruscrisis have racked up more than 2 million views onvideo app TikTok.
Cribbing the tune from pop song Jealous – or Ghenin Vietnamese – by singers Erik and Min, the Ministryof Health released an animated video with lyricstelling its citizens to "push back the virus Corona, Corona".
The unlikely earworm drew hundreds of thousands of views on Youtube, and was also featuredon HBO's comedic news show Last Week Tonight, with host John Oliver calling it a "genuineclub-banger".
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 professionalshave recommended.
Spin-offs include office workers grooving at their desks and even people dressed in the Hmongethnic minority outfits dancing in front of a waterfall.
还有些上班族在办公桌前跳“洗手舞”，甚至有穿着赫蒙族服装的人在瀑布前跳舞。
"The remote village also prevents and fights the epidemic," read the caption on a videofeaturing the Hmong couple.
这对赫蒙族夫妇在视频配文中写道：“这个偏远的村庄也在预防和抗击新冠肺炎。”
Popularised by dancer and Internet personality Qang Dang, who has nearly 300,000 followers onTikTok and Instagram, he and another dancer performed it with light-hearted swagger on astreet with food vendors.
The song provides guidance on how to prevent an infection, such as washing hands by "rub,rub, rubbing evenly" and limiting "visits to crowded places".
这段视频介绍了预防感染的方法，比如洗手要“搓、搓、均匀地搓”，还要尽量避免“去拥挤的地方”等。
"We want the song to give fire and reduce tension for those... leading this fight, includingexperts, doctors, medical workers and millions of labourers who are on the frontline to fight thisepidemic daily," the health ministry posted in the video's description.
Vietnam has a booming youth demographic, with two-thirds of its 97 million citizens underthe age of 35.
越南的年轻人人口数量持续增长，9700万人口中有三分之二的人年龄在35岁以下。
It has 16 confirmed cases of the coronavirus, though it says all patients have recovered andbeen discharged.
目前越南已经确诊感染新冠肺炎的人数为16人。越南政府表示，患病人员均已康复出院。
The country has taken great measures in the fight against the virus, including putting a smallvillage an hour from Hanoi under quarantine after five confirmed cases emerged from there.
