Social Listening Report Number 36: 14 February 2022
- Title
- Social Listening Report Number 36: 14 February 2022
- Type of Report
- Social Listening Report
- Date
- February 14, 2022
- Key Trends In the Report
- The country was still on alert level 1. The Social listening report reported declining vaccine hesitancy statistics. Higher vaccination reates were linked to better knowledge about the vaccines that was publicly available. During this report barriers to vaccines were attributed to issues of vaccine access where people didnt know which vaccination sites to go to.
- Misinformation by Period
- Covid is over, Regulation confusion. Misinformation related to vaccination mandates including fears that vaccine mandates are violating people's basic rights. Additionally, misinformation related to adolescent vaccination rollout. Lastly, claims that stastistical reporting of COVID-19 cases was manipulated to coerce people into vaccinating.
- Suggested Recommendations
- Address claims that Covid isn’t over. Increase efforts to involve and focus on the youth. Publicise where COVID-19 vaccination sites are. Address economic barriers to COVID-19 vaccinations including transportation support and implementing vaccination incentives.
- Lockdown Level
- 1
- Cumulative Cases
- 3 642 906
- Cumulative Deaths
- 97 250
- Cumulative Hospitalisations
- 502 874
- Cumulative Recoveries
- 3 508 249
- Total number of vaccines administered to date
- 30 768 304
- Geographical Region
- Africa (South Africa)
- Curators of the report
- Nombulelo Leburu
- NDoH
- Peter Benjamin
- HealthEnabled
- Charity Bhengu.
- 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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