Social Listening Report Number 20: 27 September 2021
- Title
- Social Listening Report Number 20: 27 September 2021
- Type of Report
- Social Listening Report
- Date
- September 27, 2021
- Key Trends In the Report
- The country was on alert level 2. The Social listening report covered increased interest in topics like the UK government stance on African vaccination (The UK considered people vaccinated from Africa unvaccinated for entry into the UK). There were also reports on topics of anti-vaccine sentiments and vaccine safety for pregnant women and mandatory vaccinations. And lastly, information on local issues and misinformation about vaccine safety and efficacy.
- Misinformation by Period
- Misinformation about coerced and/or forced vaccinations. COVID-19 vaccine discrimination and antivaxx groups driving antivaxx sentiments. Religious concerns about vaccines the Muslim community in South Africa claimed that vaccines are filth and therefore haram. Misinformation about vaccine discrimination.
- Suggested Recommendations
- Continue providing accurate information with verified statistics on the risk of contracting the virus and having severe symptoms after vaccination. Enhance vaccine literacy and conduct more online and offline vaccine literacy sessions to address knowledge gaps. Increase community engagement. And lastly, improve accessibility of vaccine sites and address vaccination equity concerns
- Lockdown Level
- 2
- Cumulative Cases
- 2 897 522
- Cumulative Deaths
- 87 216
- Cumulative Hospitalisations
- 427 979
- Cumulative Recoveries
- 2 762 812
- Total number of vaccines administered to date
- 17 229 648
- 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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