Covid-19 Topics & Myths Report: 25 January 2021
- Title
- Covid-19 Topics & Myths Report: 25 January 2021
- Type of Report
- Covid-19 Topics & Myths Report
- Date
- January 25, 2021
- Key Trends In the Report
- From the 29 December 2020 to 28 February 2021 South Africa was on adjusted alert level 3. The disaster management regulation on level 3 was indicated by moderate COVID-19 spread with moderate health system readiness. During this time South Africa was experiencing the second wave of COVID-19. The social listening report was on the symptoms of COVID-19, these included flu-like symptoms and lastly, around the hopes of vaccines and herd immunity by the overall protection of the pupulation.
- Misinformation by Period
- Myths on the safety and efficacy of the vaccine. Misinformation related to wearing of masks. There was misinformation related to COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy.
- Suggested Recommendations
- Scientific research on COVID-19 and its vaccines
- Lockdown Level
- 3
- Cumulative Cases
- 1 417 537
- Cumulative Deaths
- 52 535
- Cumulative Hospitalisations
- 188 718
- Cumulative Recoveries
- 1 241 421
- Number of vaccines administered for that week
- No Data
- Total number of vaccines administered to date
- No Data
- 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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