For all the latest news about the coronavirus, click here.A fake message has been circulating on social media around South Africa, hinting that at a hard lockdown was imminent

The basic content of the message says that the countrys National Coronavirus Command Council (NCCC) was meeting on Monday afternoon, and the country was looking at a harder lockdown in the near future.

However, according to a report by The Citizen, the governments spokesperson Phumla Williams has confirmed that the message is FAKE. There will not be any meeting of the NCCC, and the country would not be implementing a Level 5 lockdown in the near future.

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On Sunday, the government released its plan to roll out the vaccine to the country in the year ahead. South Africa is currently under Level 3 Lockdown as the second wave of infections continues to spread.

On Sunday evening, cases hit 1 100748. New cases increased by 11859 and 402 more deaths were reported.

The government urged all citizens to be safe and to follow all of the guidelines in order to curb the spread of the second wave of the pandemic.

Citizens all around the world are struggling to determine the validity of the overload of information they are faced with on a daily basis. Its become such a common issue that its coined a new term, infodemiology.

Due to COVID-19, most of us have a new word in our vocabulary: epidemiology, says an article by the World Health Organisation (WHO). It is the branch of medical science that deals with the ways diseases are transmitted and can be controlled in a population. Now it is time to learn another new word: infodemiology.

We are all being exposed to a huge amount of COVID-19 information on a daily basis, and not all of it is reliable, says the World Health Organisation.

The WHO offered some tips for telling the difference and stopping the spread of misinformation:

Take a look at the tips in the infographic below, and follow THIS LINK for more detailed information

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