The absence of a cure has sparked a flurry of claims for purported remedies.
The task of introducing a vaccine for the coronavirus faces an uphill struggle in Africa, where a flood of online misinformation is feeding on mistrust of Western medical research.
They range from consuming onions and ginger and drinking one’s urine to a herbal formula touted by Madagascar President Andry Rajoelina — assertions that fly in the face of stern scientific warnings. AFP found that the disturbance was in fact triggered when locals mistook a door-to-door cosmetics salesman for a health ministry worker. The government said that no children have died from a coronavirus vaccine.
This explains why comments made last month by two French researchers had an outsized impact south of the Sahara, Moodley said.WhatsApp, one of the most popular messaging platforms in Africa. AFP/File/Lionel BONAVENTURE “It is as if we were back in the colonial era,” Kenya’s former justice minister Martha Karua told AFP. “I personally think it is racist and condescending.”
The World Health Organization has flagged earning public trust as an urgent health challenge and warned of an “infodemic” — a deluge of information, including misinformation on social media — that is hampering the COVID-19 response.
Barrier technique: A doctor at the Kenyatta National Hospital in Nairobi suits up for visiting a ward for people who had been quarantined after coming into contact with Kenya’s first coronavirus patient. AFP/Yasuyoshi CHIBA
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