Social Listening Report Number 14: 16 August 2021
- Title
- Social Listening Report Number 14: 16 August 2021
- Type of Report
- Social Listening Report
- Date
- August 16, 2021
- Key Trends In the Report
- The country was on lockdown level 3. The report discusses that there was a significant gap between vaccine supply and demand. There was a debate about urban vs. rural areas vaccine coverage with many arguing urban areas had better vaccine supply and accessibility.
- Misinformation by Period
- Covid vaccines don’t stop infection. Vaccines contain graphene oxide. Conspiracy theories that believe that vaccines are part of a larger conspiracy to control people. Claims that vaccine make people magnetic and causes infertility. Lastly, the misinformation was around vaccines containing microchips designed to track people.
- Suggested Recommendations
- Develop messaging and communications strategy to engage vaccine-undermining medical doctors.Develop vaccine hesitancy surveys and foster collaboration among researchers. Increase social listening efforts across all provinces to address local issues.
- Lockdown Level
- 3
- Cumulative Cases
- 2 613 570
- Cumulative Deaths
- 77 440
- Cumulative Hospitalisations
- 387 847
- Cumulative Recoveries
- 2 382 809
- Total number of vaccines administered to date
- 9 858 188
- Geographical Region
- Africa (South Africa)
- 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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