West Africa is currently free of Ebola but the Democratic Republic of Congo has an ongoing outbreak. The much-feared virus has killed 2,199 there since August 2018. — Reuters picpremieres Friday in the capital Monrovia, about two lovers whose wedding plans are upended when the deadly Ebola virus strikes.
“There is a need to have a document on what devastated our country during the Ebola outbreak,” the film’s executive producer Cosme Pulano told AFP. West Africa is currently free of Ebola but the Democratic Republic of Congo has an ongoing outbreak. The much-feared virus has killed 2,199 there since August 2018.“I am not going there,” said Adams Zeogar, an Ebola survivor, referring to the film.
The executive producer, who is also an employee at Liberia’s presidential affairs ministry, barely escaped Ebola himself.