Covid-19 Status Report: 17 December 2021

Title

Covid-19 Status Report: 17 December 2021

Type of Report

Covid-19 Status Report

Date

December 17, 2021

Key Trends In the Report

The country was still on alert level 1. The report was on COVID-19 epidemiology updates, this included varying trends across different regions such as fluctuating COVID-19 case numbers, hospitalisations, deaths and vaccination campaigns

Misinformation by Period

There is no misinformation

Suggested Recommendations

COVID-19 Epidemiology Update Dr Michelle Groome– 17 December 2021

Lockdown Level

1

Cumulative Cases

3 276 530

Cumulative Deaths

90 297

Cumulative Hospitalisations

454 542

Cumulative Recoveries

2 975 417

Total number of vaccines administered to date

27 652 856

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