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Zambia COVID-19 response, No. 5: Risk Communication & Community Engagement (RCCE) sub-committee - Social listening report, 1-15 May 2020

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Highlights

This report presents the results of social listening in the fortnight ending 15 May 2020 across a variety of platforms in Zambia by those in the RCCE sector. A few highlights and themes are summarised below:

  • Continuing reports of ‘business as usual’ in many high density areas either through necessity, lack of knowledge, or underappreciation of the risk (“COVID-19 is not for people like us”). The message on handwashing does appear to be getting traction, though other preventive behaviours less so.

  • The Nakonde spike reduced feelings that the pandemic only concerned Lusaka and an elite. But it raised a new set of concerns on tramission from travellers and also screening.

  • The COVID-19 conversation saw key debating points in the first half of May over school and church reopenings, donations, Nakonde, and the death of a lab technican using public transport.

  • Sensitisation work in communities is growing and important given that other channels such as radio messages and posters do not reach everyone, and cannot always be well understood.

The report has been divided into sections below, and contains a full annex of COVID-19 media stories from the fortnight.