Social Listening Report Number 10: 19 July 2021
- Title
- Social Listening Report Number 10: 19 July 2021
- Type of Report
- Social Listening Report
- Date
- July 19, 2021
- Key Trends In the Report
- The country was on alert level 4. The report addressed the impact of the unrest. The unrest and looting in KZN and Gauteng severely disrupted the vaccination program. There was excitement with 34-49 year olds about vaccinations with over 1 million registrations in 24 hours. Mistrust directed at the government beacuse of the impact on the vaccination rollout. Lastly, there was an overload on the call centre with concerns about vaccines
- Misinformation by Period
- Natural immunity is better than vaccine immunity, Ivermectin prevents and cures COVID-19. Vaccine Safety: Misinformation suggesting that vaccines are untested and cause deaths.
- Suggested Recommendations
- Increase mobile vaccination sites, Covid WhatsApp system should be implemented. Address Vaccine Inequality and investigate barriers to vaccine access. Support for People Without IDs. Clarify and communicate the process for vaccinating individuals without IDs or passport
- Lockdown Level
- 4
- Cumulative Cases
- 365 848
- Cumulative Deaths
- 67 080
- Cumulative Hospitalisations
- 341 619
- Cumulative Recoveries
- 2 069 085
- Total number of vaccines administered to date
- 5 574 480
- 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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