Social Listening Report: 13 August 2021

Title

Social Listening Report: 13 August 2021

Type of Report

Social Listening Report

Date

August 13, 2021

Key Trends In the Report

The country was on lockdown level 3. The report is on the Limpopo Department of Health COVID-19 vaccine rollout strategy. The report covers the goals for vaccine distribution and coverage.

Misinformation by Period

There is no misinformation present

Suggested Recommendations

The recommendations are based on how to improve vaccine uptake in Limpopo this includes increasing vaccine accessibility but creating more vaccine sites especially in rural areas. To also increase public awareness by creating communication awareness campaigns for the public.

Lockdown Level

3

Cumulative Cases

2 582 428

Cumulative Deaths

76 631

Cumulative Hospitalisations

384 960

Cumulative Recoveries

2 355 254

Total number of vaccines administered to date

9 645 947

Geographical Region

0

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