COVID-19 Vaccine Rollout Strategy Report Number 13: 09 August 2021
- Title
- COVID-19 Vaccine Rollout Strategy Report Number 13: 09 August 2021
- Type of Report
- COVID-19 Vaccine Rollout Strategy Report
- Date
- August 9, 2021
- Key Trends In the Report
- Lockdown was on alert level 3. The report set out key trends such as wide vaccine rollout collaboration that includes calls for community mobilization and needed collaboration between private companies and research organisations. Additionally, the report addresses negative vaccine consequences such as concerns about illness and death after vaccination. Post-COVID Infection Immunity vs. Vaccine Immunity including questions about the necessity of vaccination for those who have had COVID-19 and believe they have natural immunity.
- Misinformation by Period
- COVID is a hoax and vaccines don’t work as you can still get infected. PCR tests are fake
- Suggested Recommendations
- Continue build trust in adverse event reporting and to strenghten RCCE messaging around COVID-19 and its vaccines.
- Lockdown Level
- 3
- Cumulative Cases
- 2 540 223
- Cumulative Deaths
- 75 012
- Cumulative Hospitalisations
- 377 439
- Cumulative Recoveries
- 2 308 054
- Total number of vaccines administered to date
- 8 935 525
- 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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