Social Listening Report Number 46: 25 April 2022
- Title
- Social Listening Report Number 46: 25 April 2022
- Type of Report
- Social Listening Report
- Date
- April 25, 2022
- Key Trends In the Report
- The national state of disaster was lifted. The reported highlighted that there was misconception that COVID-19 was over. There was a sharp decline in COVID-19 cases. There was reported concern over COVID-19 vaccines affecting routine immunisation. Higher Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV). Concerns around COVID-19 safety and side effects especially on women.
- Misinformation by Period
- COVID-19 vaccines and boosters give you HIV. COVID-19 vaccines cause infertility and erectile dysfuntion. Vaccine side effects are under reported and the vaccines can kill you. COVID-19 isnt bad so we dont need to get vaccinate.
- Suggested Recommendations
- Set up sites in under served communities. Intergrate COVID-19 vaccination services with routine immunization. Provide grief counselling services. Provide COVID-19 and flu messaging to the public. Prepare 5th wave COVID-19
- Lockdown Level
- The National State of Disaster lifted
- Cumulative Cases
- 3 764 866
- Cumulative Deaths
- 100 333
- Cumulative Hospitalisations
- 518 697
- Cumulative Recoveries
- 3 634 446
- Total number of vaccines administered to date
- 34 769 943
- 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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