Social Listening Report Number 16: 30 August 2021
- Title
- Social Listening Report Number 16: 30 August 2021
- Type of Report
- Social Listening Report
- Date
- August 30, 2021
- Key Trends In the Report
- The country was still on alert level 3 lockdown. The report focused on the following key trends including positive sentiments that the public was sharing on social media platforms about the vaccine rollout phases. Additionally, the report highlighted issues associated with increased vaccine demand especially among thise 18-34 years. There was an increased social media activity around COVID-19 vaccines with over 1.1 million mentions of the vaccines. Laslty, the report highlights debates around mandatory vaccination with the general public fearing that vaccinations would be made compulsory.
- Misinformation by Period
- Anti vaccine mRNA will kill you in 6 months. Traditional medicine is just as effective as the vaccine. Infertility Concerns misinformation suggesting vaccines cause infertility or sterility in men. New Variant Fear false claims about a new, more deadly variant called COVID-22.
- Suggested Recommendations
- Youth communication. Reproductive health messaging and Local social listening. Promote vaccinated individuals and encourage those who are vaccinated to promote vaccination to others through SMS, leaflets, and public media.
- Lockdown Level
- 3
- Cumulative Cases
- 2 770 576
- Cumulative Deaths
- 81 830
- Cumulative Hospitalisations
- 407 416
- Cumulative Recoveries
- 2 533 956
- Total number of vaccines administered to date
- 12 595 525
- 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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