Social Listening Report Number 44: 11 April 2022
- Title
- Social Listening Report Number 44: 11 April 2022
- Type of Report
- Social Listening Report
- Date
- April 11, 2022
- Key Trends In the Report
- South Africa lifted the national state of disaster. The report highlighted that people thought COVID-19 pandemic was over because of the end of the national state of disaster. There was increased rejection of communication related to COVID-19 and its vaccines. There was frustration about finding operating vaccination sites. There was negative sentiment around the release of the second batch of Pfizer documents.
- Misinformation by Period
- Misinformation was of vaccine safety, COVID-19 vaccines can kill you. COVID-19 vaccines cause infertility and erectile dysfunction. COVID-19 cause people to have vaccine acquired HIV. Misinformation predicting 5th wave of COVID-19. Misinformation related to the Pfizer documents.
- Suggested Recommendations
- Need to emphasise that COVID-19 is not over. Provide clear communication regarding new COVID-19 regulations after the end of the national state of disaster. Update lists of available vaccination sites.
- Lockdown Level
- The National State of Disaster lifted
- Cumulative Cases
- 3 732 629
- Cumulative Deaths
- 100 098
- Cumulative Hospitalisations
- 513 951
- Cumulative Recoveries
- 3 621 083
- Total number of vaccines administered to date
- 34 309 541
- 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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