Street murals across South Africa promote vaccination

The issue around Covid-19 vaccinations has been hanging over everyone’s heads for nearly two years now, with fake news and conspiracy theories doing the rounds all over.

The Centre of Analytics and Behavioural Change (CABC), a non-profit organisation based at University of Cape Town’s (UCT’s) Graduate School of Business tracks and counters misinformation and disinformation, fake news and divisive rhetoric that is propagated online to undermine social cohesion, democratic integrity and the stability of nation-states.

According to the CABC’s most recent report, social media conversations around the Covid-19 vaccination is largely driven by vaccine hesitancy.

Covid-19 vaccines are safe – SAHPRA

NISEC’s Professor Hannelie Meyer, in explaining the processes of investigation of reports of adverse reactions, which help to identify causality, cited statistics from 17 May to 31 August 2021 during which 12 166 043 doses of Covid-19 were administered.  She said, “for this period, SAHPRA and NISEC received 86 reports of death (0.0007%) among people who received the vaccine.  Of these 46 cases are under investigation and 40 have been investigated and causality assessed.  Of this, 34 cases were found to be coincidental, 13 of which had Covid-19 and 1 was a breakthrough infection.  Six cases were unclassifiable due to inadequate information. We can therefore say with confidence that our investigations to date, indicate that the Covid-19 vaccines are safe.”

See all the murals that have been popping up in all corners of the country:

Gauteng

KwaZulu-Natal

Western Cape

North West

Mpumalanga

See below on how to access your vaccine certificate once you have been vaccinated: