--- --- # Watch the People of Sierra Leone Sing and Dance as Country Beats Ebola by [Alexandra Sifferlin](https://time.com/author/alexandra-sifferlin/) ## Alexandra Sifferlin Nov 18, 2015 9:07 PM UTC by [Alexandra Sifferlin](https://time.com/author/alexandra-sifferlin/) ## Alexandra Sifferlin Nov 18, 2015 9:07 PM UTC Sierra Leone is saying goodbye to Ebola in song. On Saturday, Sierra Leone was declared Ebola-free after it went 42 days with no new cases of the disease. In celebration, the rapper Block Jones wrote “Bye Bye Ebola,” which features dancing health care workers and ambulance drivers—including workers in full protective gear. Sierra Leone had more than 14,000 cases of Ebola and more than 3,900 residents died from the disease. Sierra Leone Celebrates No More Ebola in Song and Dance ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4119107/sierra-leone-ebola-celebrate/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4119107/sierra-leone-ebola-celebrate/"},"headline":"Watch the People of Sierra Leone Sing and Dance as Country Beats Ebola","datePublished":"2015-11-18T21:07:15.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:27:02.012Z","description":"The country has a lot to celebrate","url":"https://time.com/4119107/sierra-leone-ebola-celebrate/","keywords":["ebola","Newsfeed","Sierra Leone","video","dance","song"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Alexandra Sifferlin","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/alexandra-sifferlin/"}],"articleSection":"Health","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/health/","name":"Health"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/ebola/","name":"ebola"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4119107/sierra-leone-ebola-celebrate/","name":"Watch the People of Sierra Leone Sing and Dance as Country Beats Ebola"}}]}] ```