Social Listening Report Number 42: 28 March 2022
- Title
- Social Listening Report Number 42: 28 March 2022
- Type of Report
- Social Listening Report
- Date
- March 28, 2022
- Key Trends In the Report
- The country was still on alert level 1. There was a decreased social media engagement related to COVID-19 vaccines and fewer search queries and engagement across platforms like Twitter, Facebook and digital news articles. There was diminished concern about COVID-19 severity publicly. There was increased vaccine fatigure influenced by factors such as side effects and perceived poor efficacy of the vaccines.
- Misinformation by Period
- Misinformation that Omicron is ‘the last Covid variant’ fuelling uptick worldwide. False claims that the pandemic has ended, leading to reduced vigilance and increased vaccine hesitancy. Mixed messages about the necessity and effectiveness of mask-wearing.
- Suggested Recommendations
- Emphasise the importance of getting vaccinated. Address misinformation that pandemic is over and COVID-19 effects on sexual performance.
- Lockdown Level
- 1
- Cumulative Cases
- 3 713 834
- Cumulative Deaths
- 99 970
- Cumulative Hospitalisations
- 511 251
- Cumulative Recoveries
- 3 600 227
- Total number of vaccines administered to date
- 33 608 120
- Geographical Region
- Globally
- 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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