Social Listening Report Number 7: 28 June 2021
- Title
- Social Listening Report Number 7: 28 June 2021
- Type of Report
- Social Listening Report
- Date
- June 28, 2021
- Key Trends In the Report
- The country was on adjusted alert level 4 from 28 June to 25 July 2021. Context from the report discussed mRNA vaccine hub in South Africa sparks optimism. Presidential lockdown and vaccine rollout plans generate interest. Fears of third-wave infections, especially in Gauteng, persist. Google searches surge for vaccine-related topics, including Abdala and side effects. Vaccine inequity evident, with insured seniors vaccinated at higher rates.
- Misinformation by Period
- COVID-19 vaccines make you magnetic, Ivermectin cures COVID-19.
- Suggested Recommendations
- Take the vaccines to the people, communicate plans for vaccination stages, publicise Ivermectin policy
- Lockdown Level
- 4
- Cumulative Cases
- 1 941 119
- Cumulative Deaths
- 60 038
- Cumulative Hospitalisations
- 301 912
- Cumulative Recoveries
- 1 723 882
- Total number of vaccines administered to date
- 2 901 651
- Geographical Region
- Global
- Curators of the report
- National Department of Health
- Stakeholders
- National Health Hotline: Reports from the national call centre
- Org: NDOH Covid-19 WhatsApp system
- WHO Africa Infodemic Response Alliance (AIRA)
- UNICEF: digital analysis of content on Google, Twitter, YouTube and Facebook, and digital news
- SA Red Cross: Network of over 2,000 community volunteers reporting misinformation and concerns.
- Real 411 Media Monitoring Africa: a mis- and disinformation reporting and debunking initiative
- COVID Comms: a network of communications specialists that produces information on the pandemic.
- DOH Free State & KZN: Provincial Departments of Health
- Health Systems Trust, Community Constituency Front (CCF),
- Health Enabled
- Centre for Communication Impact, Centre for Analytics & Behavioural Change
- Medical Research Council, National Institute for Communicable Diseases,
- SA Vaccination and Immunisation Centre, HSRC, DG Murray Trust, Right to Care
- Universities of Johannesburg, Cape Town, Free State, Wits, Stellenbosch, Sefako Makgatho
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